LARISSA DANGELO is Associate Professor of English language and translation at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bergamo. She is the Head of the UNIBG Eye Tracking Lab and an active member of the Research Centre on Languages for Specific Purposes (CERLIS) of the University of Bergamo. 
She specialized in English Language in the USA (Youngstown State University), obtaining an MA, a TESOL Certificate and a Certificate in Children's and Young Adult Literature and she later obtained a PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading (UK). Her main research interests deal with the translation and fruition of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Audiovisual Translation (AVT), multimodal analyses and eye tracking studies.