Adapting Gaskell: Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction (Language and Literature) - Hardcover

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Loredana Salis is Researcher in English Literature at the Universita di Sassari, Italy. A former graduate from the University of Ulster, she obtained there an MA in Irish Literature in English (2001) and a PhD in Comparative Literatures with a thesis on the reworking of classical theatre in contemporary Irish drama (2005). Between 2006 and 2008 she began a co-financed research project between the Arts Faculty, Universita di Sassari, Italy, and the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster, Derry. While in Northern Ireland, she worked as Research Associate in Literary Heritages and conducted research into the migrant communities of Ireland and their representations on the Irish stage. She has also researched and published articles on the Irish Travellers, the Polish and Lithuanian communities in Northern Ireland, the Antigone myth in Italy, and patterns of pilgrimage in Ireland between tradition and globalisation. She moved back to Italy in 2008 and has been a Lecturer in English Language and Literature since then. Her monographs include Miti antichi, storie d'oggi (Pellegrini Editore, 2009) and Stage Migrants: Representations of the Migrant Other in Modern Irish Drama (CSP, 2010).