Anna Pasolini holds a PhD in English Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Milan. She works in the area of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies, particularly on feminist revisions of traditional fairy tales and on the representation of gender(ed) and transcultural identities in noir fiction. She has published on Angela Carter, Derek Raymond, David Cronenberg and Lionel Shriver, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Other Modernities and of the CRC (Centro di Ricerca Coordinato – Università degli Studi di Milano) The Criminal Hero.