Granit Zela graduated in British and American Studies from the University of Tirana and holds a PhD in World Literature. He is a writer as well as a translator into Albanian of British and American fiction and non-fiction books, including John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy and William Faulkner’s Light in August and As I Lay Dying. Zela is currently an Assistant Professor of English, University of New York, Tirana. Dr. Zela’s research interests include British and American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies.