Rossana M. Sebellin received her PhD from the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", with a dissertation on Beckett's self-translation and the manuscripts of "Play" and Not I (and their French versions). She is currently working as lecturer at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". She has published a book on Beckett's first attempt at drama ("Prior to Godot". Eleutheria di Samuel Beckett, 2006), another on Beckett's self-translation of "Play" and Not I (La doppia originalità di Samuel Beckett, 2008), and several articles on Beckett, Modernism and contemporary authors.