Elena Paruolo Editor

Elena Paruolo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Salerno, Italy) has contributed several essays on Joseph Conrad to specialist journals (like L’epoque Conradienne) and to collections (among which: Joseph Conrad. Critical Assessments, Kent, 1992), and written a book, Il mito di Oxbridge. L’università nel romanzo inglese (The Oxbridge Myth. The University in English Literature). Her interest in children’s literature began at the end of the 90s. In 2003 she was elected a member of the Scientific Committee of the Réseau « Littératures d’enfance » (LDE) of the AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) and worked with them until December 2007. She has taken part in numerous national and international Conferences on children’s literature and is the author of a great number of essays on this topic published in Italian and foreign reviews and miscellaneous volumes.