Simona Carretta has obtained the National Scientific Qualification for associate professor (II level) in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literatures (sector 10/F4). Her main research interests are focused on the study of the novel from a theoretical and comparative perspective, and in its relationship with the essay and the arts. After graduating in Theory of Literature at the University of Bari, she earned a PhD in Comparative Literatures in a joint program between the University of Trento and the Université Paris-Sorbonne, and was a research fellow at the Universities of Trento and Bologna. She translated from French the essay by Lakis Proguidis The Mysteries of the Novel. From Kundera to Rabelais (2016), published in Italy by Mimesis. Also for Mimesis, her monograph The Novel with Variations was published in 2019, dedicated to the relationship between the compositional forms of the novel and those of music.