Carol Mastrangelo Bové is Professor Emerita in English and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.  She is also Professor Emerita in French, Westminster College, PA, USA.  She has published Language and Politics in Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy (2006), Kristeva in America:  Re-imagining the Exceptional (2020), and many articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film and literary translation.