Rosa Mucignat is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King’s College London. She is the author of Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869 (2013), and has published articles on space and place in European and world literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Together with Sanja Perovic, she has worked on representations of the French Revolution in European literature. They are now starting a new project on the translation of radical texts between France and Italy in the revolutionary period. She has also written on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Friuli, and edited the collection of essay Friulian Language: Identity, Migration, Culture (2014).