Miriam Sette is Associate Professor and teaches English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara).
She has published several essays on Daniel Defoe, William Beckford, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, Jean Rhys, Norman Douglas and Doris Lessing. She has translated and edited a collection of Rudyard Kipling's Fantastical Tales (Rudyard Kipling. Il marchio della bestia e altri racconti del fantastico, Introduction by Miriam Sette; Afterword by Phillip Mallett, Biblion edizioni, Milan 2018) and a collection of unpublished tales by various authors, from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley, entitled Amori e rovine. Racconti gotici dei maestri del genere (Tracce, Pescara 2000). She is the author of four monographs on English writers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries: George Eliot, il corpo della passione. Aspetti della corporeità nella narrativa dell’ultima fase, Campus, Pescara 2004; Doris Lessing, La narrativa di Doris Lessing. Strategie e metafore per un impegno, Aracne, Rome 2007; Daniel Defoe, Il fantastico in Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe e la Ragione trasfiguratrice, Carocci, Rome 2010; Kipling, Wells and Garnett, Trittico sulla metamorfosi: Kipling, Wells, Garnett, Liguori, Naples 2015.