Federica Condipodero graduated from the University of Pisa, where she is currently a doctoral student in Italian Studies. She is conducting a research project focused on the critical and annotated edition of the unpublished correspondence of Nicolò Franco, an author counted among the heterodox of Italian Cinquecento. Among her research interests are feminist theory and criticism and the production of women writers of the twentieth century. She participated in the conception and organization of Sommerse, a series of seminars dedicated to ten female narrators of the twentieth century, organized in collaboration with the cultural association «Lo spazio letterario» and the University of Bologna.