Claudia Cremonesi holds a Ph.D. from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere. She graduated from the same University with a thesis on Charles Dickens and the cinema. She is interested in the interaction between literature and visual studies. Among her essays: “Dickens’s Sketches and Visual Culture: from Boz to the Cinema” (2012) and “The Circus-image: from Literature to Cinematography” (2012).