Silvia Guselli

Name: Silvia Guselli

Title(s): Ph.D. Student

E-mail: silvia.guselli@uniroma1.it

Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome

Bionote:
Silvia Guselli is enrolled in the second year of the Ph.D. Course in “Studies in English Literature, Language and Translation-Curriculum in American Literature” at La Sapienza, University of Rome. In 2022 she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2024 she obtained a Masters Degree in English and Anglo-American Studies at La Sapienza. Her doctoral project aims to explore the backcountry through Hector St John de Crèvecoeur’s 1801 understudied work, “Voyage dans le Haute Pensylvanie et dans l’ètat de New York”. Her interests are: the eighteenth and early nineteenth century frontiers; the Appalachian region; Crèvecoeur’s oeuvre and other authors of the backcountry.

Areas of interest:Early American Literature; Backcountry; J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur