Carol Mastrangelo Bové is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Professor Emerita in French, Westminster College, PA, USA. She has published Language and Politics in Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy (2006) and many articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film, and literary translation. She has also translated books and articles on psychoanalytic theory and criticism, including Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.