Ilaria Sicari is an Adjunct Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Florence. She earned her Ph.D. in Russian Language and Literature from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2017), where she worked on a dissertation about the Soviet reception of Italo Calvino’s works under the supervision of prof. Donatella Possamai. In 2015 she was an Overseas fellow at the School of Philology at Higher School of Economics (Moscow), where she joined the scientific research group InterLit (Internatsional’naya literatura – International literature) under the supervision of prof. Elena Zemskova (2015-16). In 2016-18 she was a member of an international research group coordinated by profs. Claudia Pieralli (University of Florence) and Luba Jurgenson (Paris-Sorbonne University), which investigated the reception of Soviet political repression in Italy and France. Her research interests range from comparative literature to translation studies, reception studies and cultural history of Soviet Russia, with a particular attention devoted to the study of literary institutions, censorship, cultural policies and the production and dissemination of uncensored Russian literary works (samizdat and tamizdat) in the USSR and Europe during the Cold War. She addressed the reception of foreign literature in the Soviet Union in several articles published in Italian and in international journals and books. Currently, she is working on the publication of her doctoral dissertation and is collaborating on the research project Cultures of Dissent of the University of Florence (https://www.culturedeldissenso.com/en/), investigating the reception of Soviet Dissent in Europe through the study of Western publishing houses involved in the production and dissemination of uncensored Soviet literature (YMCA Press, Feltrinelli, Mondadori, Posev, Sintaksis, Tovarishchestvo zarubezhnikh pisatelei) and of the editorial history of some samizdat and tamizdat publications. She is also working as translator from Russian and English for the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani.