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