Alessan­dra Anzani is the edi­to­r­i­al direc­tor at Aca­d­e­m­ic Stud­ies Press, pub­lish­er of award-win­ning schol­ar­ly and trade titles in the human­i­ties and social sci­ences. She man­ages the acqui­si­tions and edi­to­r­i­al teams, as well as the trade imprint Cher­ry Orchard Books, and serves on the edi­to­r­i­al board of the Lon­don Ukrain­ian Review. She pre­vi­ous­ly worked for Peter Lang as an acqui­si­tions edi­tor in the UK, US, and Latin Amer­i­can mar­kets. She stud­ied clas­sics, lit­er­a­ture, and philol­o­gy at Uni­ver­sità di Saler­no, Italy and inter­na­tion­al rela­tions at UCL, Lon­don. She lived in Italy, Ger­many, and the US before set­tling in Oxford, UK.