Loredana Di Martino holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington and a Doctoral degree (Dottorato di ricerca) in Linguistics and Literature from Scuola Europea di Studi Avanzati in Naples. She also holds a Master’s degree in Italian Studies from the University of Washington.

She has taught and developed a wide variety of courses in Italian language, culture and literature, and she has also coordinated the Basic Language Program (Elementary and Intermediate Italian) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2006-2007). Since 2003 she has been Editorial Assistant at the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies.

Her research interests focus on the Twentieth-century novel, modernism and postmodernism, Italian detective fiction, literary theory, theory of the novel, as well as on language pedagogy and technology-assisted language learning. Her publications include the volume "Il caleidoscopio della scrittura: James Joyce, Carlo Emilio Gadda e il romanzo modernista" (2009), as well as articles on the modernist and postmodernist novel and on language pedagogy, and book reviews.