Rahilya Geybullayeva is PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University (1989) and Full Professor at Baku Slavic University. She was a recipient of UNESCO, Carnegie, and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a visiting scholar at SOAS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Geybullayeva has authored numerous monographs and articles focusing on the intersections of comparative literature, culture, religion, literary historiography, and sociology. Among her recent publications are: chapter "Semiolinguistic look on mythology, cultural history and meanings of places in Azerbaijan" in Transcending Signs (2023) and The Interpretation of Nizami's Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary Period (2020). Nunzio Ruggiero is Full Professor in Contemporary Italian Literature within the Humanities Department of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples (UniSOB). He teaches Italian Literature and Literary Criticism, in the Degree Courses in Foreign Languages, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology. His main area of research is the study of the Neapolitan cultural life in the XIX and XX centuries, within an international perspective which underlines the role of Naples as European capital. Among his recent publications: Paesaggio 1922-2022. Cent'anni della legge Croce, ed. by F. Mangone, N. Ruggiero (2022); Una capitale del XIX secolo. La cultura letteraria a Napoli tra Europa e nuova Italia (2020). Maria Teresa Giaveri has been Professor of Comparative Literature and French Literature at different Italian Universities and at C.N.R.S (Paris). She is a member of the Accademia delle Scienze (Torino) and of the Accademia Peloritana (Palermo, Messina); she is Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (France), editor of numerous scientific journals, vice-president of Pen Club Italia and of Società Italiana di Traduttologia. Among her books is "Meridiani Mondadori" Colette and Valéry (2000, 2014), the Correspondence Einstein - Valéry (2020) and the best-seller Lady Montagu e il Dragomanno. Viaggio avventuroso alle origini dei vaccini (2021).
