Camilla Skalle is Associate professor in Italian literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, where she teaches Italian literature and culture. Skalle holds a PhD in Italian literature, and her research interests include contemporary Italian literature, feminist literary criticism, foreign language didactics and Italian migrant literature and film. Her research within the field of humanistic migration studies is characterized by a comparative approach as she draws upon both literary and linguistic theory as well as exploring the uses of migrant narratives in the teaching of foreign languages.