Mariaconcetta Costantini is full professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti- Pescara, Italy. Her research mainly focuses on Victorian literature and culture, with a special interest in sensation fiction and the Gothic. She is the author of five books and has edited volumes on Victorian literature and culture, in addition to publishing numerous articles and book chapters both in Italy and abroad. Her publications on sensation novelists include the monographs Venturing into Unknown Waters: Wilkie Collins and the Challenge of Modernity(2008) and Sensation and Professionalism in the Victorian Novel (2015), as well as the collection of essays Armadale: Wilkie Collins and the Dark Threads of Life, ed. M. Costantini (2009).