Maria Teresa Chialant (born 27 December 1940) is a literary critic and former professor at the University of Salerno, Italy. She is "socio onorario" of the "Osservatorio interdipartimentale per gli Studi di Genere e le Pari Opportunità"[1] She is best known for her work on Victorian literature and is the author of Letteratura e femminismi. Teorie della critica in area inglese e americana (2001), L'impulso autobiografico. Inghilterra, Stati Uniti, Canada... e altri ancora (2006), Declinazioni del fantastico: La prospettiva critica di Romolo Runcini e l’opera di Edgar Allan Poe (2020).
When she retired the Academic staff of the University of Salerno dedicated to her a volume of essays with the title Gender/genre. Saggi in onore di Maria Teresa Chialant[2] (Carocci: 2014 ISBN978-8820764418).
Chialant is one of the members of the Empathic Movement (Empathism) originated in Italy in 2020.[3]
