Franca Sinopoli is Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, Chair of the Master of Arts in Modern Philology and Academic Mobility Coordinator of the Faculty of Humanities. She taught Comparative Literature at the University of Lausanne in 1998, was Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney in 2004 and Visiting Professor in the Programa de Doctorado en Teoría de la literatura y Literatura Comparada at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2006. She was a member of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) Coordinating Committee (2007-2016), which deals with Comparative Literary History in European Languages (CHLEL). She is a member of the Board of the doctoral programme in Italian Studies at Sapienza University, of the International Advisory Board of the journal CLCweb: Comparative Literature and Culture, of the Advisory Board of the series published by Peter Lang "Transcultural Studies" and of the Editorial Board of Journal of World Literature. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal “Enthymema. Rivista internazionale di critica, teoria e filosofia della letteratura”, University of Milan, of the editorial board of the yearbook "Comparatismi. Rivista della Consulta di Critica letteraria e Letterature comparate" and the scientific committee of "Polythesis. Philology, Interpretation and Theory of Literature”. She founded and co-directs the open access yearbook “Novecento transnazionale. Letterature, arti e culture” (Sapienza) and the series "Studi transnazionali/Transnational studies" (Lithos Editore). She coordinates the 2022-24 Sapienza research project “Processes of Transculturation in Contemporary European Literatures and Arts/Processes of Transculturation in European Literatures and Arts”. She coordinated the 2019-2022 Sapienza research project “Narrating the Trauma in European Literatures and Cultures from the 19th Century to late modernity: a Comparative Approach to Memory and Post-memory Narratives”.