Laura Tosi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari. Her research focuses on early modern drama and children’s literature. In this latter field she has published extensively on the literary fairy tale and adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays for children, and has co-edited the first history of British children’s literature in Italian (Dall’ABC a Harry Potter, 2011). Her latest monograph study, a comparative analysis of nineteenth-century children’s fantasy traditions in Italy and England, The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: The Parallel Worlds of National and Transnational Classic Fantasies (McFarland, 2018, with Peter Hunt), has recently won the 2019 Elisa Frauenfelder international prize.