Serena I. Volpi holds a PhD in English from Brunel University London. She is lecturer in Anthropology at Lorenzo de’ Medici, The Italian International Institute in Florence and instructor of English language at the Department of Political Science, University of Rome “Roma Tre”. She has published on ageing in Zora Neale Hurston’s and Alice Walker’s novels, on Katherine Dunham’s ethnography of the Caribbean, and on magical realism and time travel in Sherman Alexie’s work. She is a regular reviewer at L’Indice dei Libri del Mese.
