The Ending of Great Expectations According to South Park: A Science-Fictional Revisitation

Claudia Cao received her PhD in Philological and Literary Studies at the University of Cagliari, where she worked on a project on the rewritings and adaptations of Great Expectations. She recently completed her Post-Doc Fellowship at the same university, in which she took part in a research group on “Sisters and sisterhood in literature and other arts”. Her publications include the books Le riscritture di Great Expectations. Sei letture del classico dickensiano [The Rewritings of Great Expectations. Six Readings of The Dickensian Classic] (Mimesis, 2016), and Sorellanze nella narrativa femminile inglese tra le due guerre [Sisterhood in British Women’s Fiction between The Wars] (Morellini, 2018). She also coedited the volumes Sorelle e sorellanza nella letteratura e nelle arti [Sisters and Sisterhood in Literature and Other Arts] (Franco Cesati, 2017) and Maschere del tragico [Masks of The Tragic] on the open access international journal “Between” (www.betweenjournal.it), where she is editorial supervisor.