Elisa Bolchi

Elisa Bolchi is a tenure-track Researcher at the University of Ferrara, Italy, and previously held a Marie-Curie Research Fellowship (2019–2021) at the University of Reading’s Department of Languages and Cultures. She is a founding vice-president of the Italian Virginia Woolf Society and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milan (2013–2019).

Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the Italian reception of Anglophone modernist authors, particularly Virginia Woolf, and explores modernism’s influence on contemporary writers like Jeanette Winterson, Ian McEwan, and Ali Smith. This work integrates literary studies with digital humanities, archival research, translation studies, and publishing history. A parallel focus on ecocriticism examines climate change fiction in contemporary literature.

Bolchi contributes to the Scientific Board of the international PhD programme in Environmental Sustainability and Wellbeing. Her grants include the prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship, supporting her project 'Virginia Woolf and Italian Readers' under Prof. Daniela La Penna and Dr. Nicola Wilson.

She actively participates in academic organizations such as the Italian Virginia Woolf Society and maintains research collaborations across institutions in Italy and the UK.