Carla Tempestoso holds a master’s degree in Modern Languages and Literatures and has recently defended her doctoral dissertation in English Literature (Department of Humanities, University of Calabria). During her doctoral program, she spent one year as a visiting scholar in the English Department at Yale University working on the translation of Caryl Phillips’s stage play, Strange Fruit (1981). Her interdisciplinary research interests include Anglo/Caribbean Studies,Migration Studies, Translation Studies, as well as Italian/American Studies. Her latest essay is “Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge: The Crisis of Englishness through a (Re)named Slave”.