Daniele Durante is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a grantee of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and visiting researcher at Kanagawa University, Japan. He has completed his studies at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he has obtained a PhD in Japanese Studies. He specialises in cultural, gender, emotional and sexual history of premodern, modern and contemporary Japan as well as in classical, premodern and modern Japanese literature. He is interested in reconstructing the discourses around and the life histories of same-sex loving, cross-dressing and gender-nonconforming persons. He is also a literary translator specialised in Japanese-Italian and Japanese-English translation. As part of his Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship project, he is working on a history of female cross-dressing and cross-gendering in early modern and modern Japan.