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Boyarkina, Iren

Iren Boyarkina received her PhD from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, with a thesis which focused on the narratives by British science fiction writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon. She has conducted extensive research in English and American science fiction literature, English and American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, feminist literature, cognitive linguistics, and translation studies. She has published a monograph on English and Russian science fiction, as well as works dedicated to Stapledon, Lessing, H.G. Wells, Arthur Clarke, Orwell, Mary Shelley, Anne Tyler, Henry James, Joyce, Dickens, Wharton, Bulgakov, Tolstoi, Yefremov, Belyaev, and Chekhov, among others. She teaches English language and literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the University of Viterbo.