Dr. Locatelli graduated in acting from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Rome), and in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Languages and Literature (English and Spanish) from the University of Pisa in 2005, with a dissertation on the theatre of Federico García Lorca (The Theatre of Federico García Lorca in Spain and Italy: An Analysis of the International Reception). From 2005 to 2008 Dr. Locatelli was Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Pescara, where she taught courses on the Semiotics of Theatre, The Analysis of the Literary Text, Theatre and Poetry in the 20th century, and Cinema and Literature. Since 2005, she has taught Italian language and culture at the American Academy in Rome, as well as at the Rome campus of Iowa State University of Science and Technology and the Embassy of Ireland to the Holy See. Since 2009, she has been teaching British and American Literature at the Catholic University of America in Rome, as well as a course on "The City of Rome" at St. John's University. Alongside her teaching duties, she participates regularly in conferences, and continues to publish articles, essays and papers in several European magazines and reviews.