Stefano Manferlotti is Professor of English Literature and of Comparative Literature, and the author of essays and books mainly devoted to modern and contemporary British literature. His publications include: George Orwell (Firenze, La Nuova Italia 1979), Antiutopia. Huxley, Orwell, Burgess (Palermo, Sellerio, 1984), Introduzione alla lettura di Aldous Huxley (Milano, Mursia, 1987), Dopo l’Impero. Romanzo ed etnia in Gran Bretagna (Napoli, Liguori, 1995; the book contains essays on Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo), James Joyce (Catanzaro, Rubbettino, 1997), Amleto in parodia (Roma, Bulzoni, 2005), Shakespeare (Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2010). He has also translated C. Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, A. Huxley, G. Orwell, H. Melville, J. London, R. Cohen, J. Domini. He is the general editor of The Lion and the Unicorn (a collection of studies of English literature), and of The Harmony of the World (a collection of studies in comparative literature). The two series are published by Liguori, Napoli. He is an Honorary Member of the British Council.