Silvia Guselli is enrolled in the PHD Course in Studies in English Literature, Language and Translation – Curriculum in Anglo-American Literature. 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 with a grade of 110 cum laude. Her doctoral project aims to reread the writings of the French-American author Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, starting from his most famous work,
Letters from an American Farmer, to his unpublished manuscripts. The project aims to draw attention to the centrality of de Crèvecoeur’s contributions in the construction of American identity, contributions that had long-term influence both on American and European visions, stories and imagery. Other areas of interest are: Early American Literature; the construction of American identity in 1600-1700; the relationship between Man and the environment; non-narrative literary genres (essays; epistles; sermons).