'Giulia Giuffrè is an Australian writer.
'Giulia grew up in the Sydney suburb of Kensington and attended Brigidine Convent, Randwick. She majored in English, French and Italian at Sydney University and graduated with B.A. First Class Honours and the University Medal in English Literature. She was awarded a travelling scholarship to the UK and gained her doctorate from Oxford University with a thesis entitled Tobias Smollett, William Hogarth and the art of caricature.
'After taking up a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale University she returned to Australia in 1980 and lectured in English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney for a number of years.' (http://www.primaverathebook.com/about-the-author.html)
