1. POSITIONS CURRENTLY HELD
(i) University of Bologna, Italy: Department of Interpreting and Translation
Full professor in Translation Studies.
(ii) University of Manchester, UK: School of Arts Languages and Cultures
Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) and Italian Studies.
(iii) Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen)
Member of the FWO Review College.
2. RECENT ACADEMIC CAREER
(i) University of Bologna, Italy: Department of Interpreting and Translation
Associate professor in Translation Studies.
Tenured researcher in Translation Studies.
(ii) Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
2017: Visting professor at the Translation and Interpreting Institute.
(iii) Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
2014: Visting professor at the Translation and Interpreting Institute.
(iv) University of Manchester, UK: School of Arts Languages and Cultures
2006-2007: Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) and Visiting Lecturer in Italian Studies, Translation into English and Translation Theory.
(v) University of Genova, Italy: Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature
1999-2002: Tenured Researcher (RTI confermato) in Translation Studies.
3. POSITIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
(i) Univ Bologna: Department of Intrepreting and Translating
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies (ISA)
- Member of the University Research Evaluation (VRA) Panel for the Humanities (Area 10).
- Head of Research for my Department.
- Member of the Department’s Doctoral Research Committee.
- 2015-2020: Head of the School’s Erasmus+ Mobility programme (for Forlì campus).
- 2012-2015: Head of the dept’s Internship committee (for Forlì Campus), which organizes internships for about 250 students a year.
- 2008-2015: Elected representative on my Department’s governing body (Giunta di dipartimento).
(iii) University of Genova: Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature
1999-2002: I was Director for the English dept. of the 3-year degree course in Translating and Interpreting. I coordinated a team of 12 teaching staff and was responsible for about 150 students.
4. EDITORIAL POSITIONS
(i) Routledge Research on Translation and Interpreting History Book Series
I am co-editor of the series with Pekka kujamäki.
(ii) inTRAlinea
I am the Coordinating Editor, together with Federico Zanettin, of inTRAlinea (www.intralinea.org), the online translation journal of the Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna. I have been a member of the Editorial board since 2004.
(iii) Chronotopos - A Journal of Translation History(ii) Chronotopos - A Journal of Translation History
I am Consultant Editor and member of the Editorial Board for Chronotopos, a journal of translation history published by the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
(iv) Letteratura tradotta in Italia
I am a member of the Editorial Board of "Letteratura tradotta in Italia", a book series published by Quodlibet, Italy.
(v) Quaderni della Società Italiana di Traduttologia
I am a member of the Scientific Committee of the book series Quaderni della Società Italiana di Traduttologia, which is published by Mucchi Editore.
(vi) The Journal of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: Foreign Philology. Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
I am a member of the Editorial Board of this journal, published by the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
(vii) Messenger of Kyiv National Linguistic University. Series Philology
I am a member of the Editorial Board of this journal, published by the Kyiv National Linguistic University in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(viii) Educational Challenges. H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
I am a member of the Editorial Board of this journal, published by H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Ukraine.
5. RESEARCH NETWORKS
(i) The History and Translation Network
I am co-founder and co-coordinator, together with Pekka Kujamäki (University of Graz), of the History and Translation Network, an international network of translation and interpreting historians that was launched in June 2021 (historyandtranslation.net).
(ii) Società italiana di traduttologia
I am on the Scientific Committee of the Società italiana di traduttologia (www.societatraduttologia.it).
6. RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND FUNDING
2010-2012: I designed and procured private funding for a research project at the University of Bologna into Quality Standards in Italian Television Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The research fellow was Irene Frosi. The project was funded by Colby Srl of Milan (www.sdhproject.net).
2004-06: I obtained funding from the University of Bologna for a 2-year research fellowship on Subtitling in Italy and parameters of Quality in Subtitling, which I coordinated (www.subtitleproject.net). The research fellow was Elena Di Giovanni.
7. TEACHING AND THESIS SUPERVISION
(i) In Italy
I have taught regularly as a tenured lecturer since 1999, first at the University of Genova and then at the University of Bologna. I have taught the following courses at both under and post graduate level:
- Translation from Italian into English
- Subtitling
- Translation theory
During this period I have supervised, or co-supervised, approximately 100 dissertations.
In the years 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, I was the coordinator of the module on Subtitling for the Masters in Audiovisual Translation of the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna.
(ii) Abroad
Since 2008 - University of Manchester, UK: as Honorary Research Fellow I have supervised 23 MA dissertations and co-supervised 1 PhD dissertation.
2017 - Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar: as Visiting professor I taught two courses on the use of CAT Tools.
2014 - Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar: as Visiting professor I taught two courses on Subtitling and on the use of CAT Tools.
2006-07 - University of Manchester, UK: as Visting lecturer I taught courses on Translation from Italian into English, Subtitling, and Italian literature.
9. PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
(i) As convener
21 May 2021: convened and moderated the roundtable: Tavola rotonda nell'ambito della manifestazione Nel nome di Dante, La ricezione di Dante in contesti di conflitto ideologico. The participants were: Jacob Blakesley (University of Leeds), Sona Haroutyunian (Università Ca’ Foscari), Kristina Landa (Università di Bologna).
5-6 December 2019: convened and led, together with Pekka Kujamäki, the second international Think Tank on Translation History, held at the University of Graz, Austria
29-30 March 2019: convened and led, together with Michaela Wolf and Pekka Kujamäki, the first international Think Tank on Translation History, held in Bertinoro, Italy.
23-27 July 2012: convened and chaired a "Roundtable on Theories and Methodologies of Translation History" at the 2012 IATIS Conference, Queens University, Belfast, UK.
14 September 2011: was member of the organizing committee of the international conference "Saperi che servono. La ricerca umanistica e sociale in un’età di riforme", at the University of Bologna, Italy.
29 April – 2 May 2011: convened and chaired a panel at the international conference Research Models in Translation Studies II, University of Manchester.
8 April 2005: convened and chaired, together with Kate Sturge, the one-day colloquium Translation in Fascist Systems: Italy, Germany and Spain which was held at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus.
(ii) By inviation
16 December 2021: Invited to take part in the symposium on Percorsi di storia delle traduzioni nella ricerca traduttologica, organized by Paolo Tamassia of LETRA - Seminario di traduzione letteraria and Antonio Lavieri of the Società Italiana di Traduttologia, and held at the University of Trento.
5 October 2021: Invited to give a seminar on History through the lens of translation: a comparative study of four fascist regimes, at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Treviso Campus.
5 September 2021: Invited to take part in a public discussion with Theo Hermans as part of the Summer School on Translation History of the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna [online].
3 September 2021: Invited to deliver a lecture, a workshop and tutorials at the Summer School on Translation History of the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna [online].
9 June 2021: Invited to give a seminar on Fascism through the Lens of Translation: A Comparative Study of Four Regimes, at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia [online].
14 May 2021: Invited speaker at the international workshop on Countering the Far Right in Translation, organized by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, USA. [online]
15 April 2021: Invited plenary speaker at the international conference “Major Issues in Translation Studies and Translators` / Interpreters` Training”, organized by the Mykola Lukash Department of Translation Studies, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. [online]
6 February 2020: Invited to give a seminar on Fascism through the Lens of Translation: A Comparative Study of Four Regimes, as part of the CTIS Seminar Series at the University of Manchester, UK.
30 January 2020: Invited to take part in the one-day symposium on La traduzione di opere straniere e la storiografia italiana del Novecento, held at the University of Bergamo, Italy.
14 November 2019: Invited to give a seminar on History through the Lens of Translation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Matej Bela, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
4 April 2019: Invited keynote speaker at the international conference Actual issues of translation studies and methods of teaching translation, organized by the Mykola Lukash Department of Translation Studies, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
4 March 2019: Invited to give a seminar on Translation and music as part of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting’s public Seminar Series. Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.
16 Nov 2018: Invited to give a doctoral seminar on Literary Translation in Fascist Italy at Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German, Stockholm University, Sweden.
30 Oct 2018: Invited to give a guest lecture on Quality in Subtitling. Subtitling as Interpretation at the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies of the University of Trieste, Italy.
11-12 Oct 2018: Invited keynote speaker at the international workshop on (Re) Thinking Translations. Methodologies, Objectives, Perspectives/(Re) penser les traductions. Methodologies, objects, perspectives, held at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
17 Sept 2018: Invited to give two workshops on Methods in translation history at the Summer School on Translation History of the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna.
16-18 July 2018: Invited plenary speaker at the conference Politiken der Translation in Italien vom Risorgimento bis zum Faschismus (im deutsch italienischen Kontext)/Politiche della traduzione in Italia dal Risorgimento al fascismo (nel contesto italo-tedesco). Villa Vigoni, Como, Italy.
5 July 2018: Invited to deliver a workshop at the Summer School on History and Translation, Historia w przekładzie, organized in collaboration by the Institute of Solidarity and Valour, the Witold Pilecki Center for Totalitarian Studies, and the Polish Literary Translators Association. Warsaw, Poland
7 June 2018: Invited to take part in a roundtable as part of the event, La letteratura tedesca in Italia, la ricerca - il portale - la collana - i libri. Presentazione dei risultati del progetto FIRB/Futuro in Ricerca 2013-2018 Storia e mappe digitali della letteratura tedesca in Italia nel Novecento. Istituto di studi germanici, Rome, Italy.
8-9 March 2018: Invited plenary speaker at the international conference "Traduzioni e storia della cultura tra Italia ed Europa (XIX secolo – prima guerra mondiale)", organized by the Dipartimento di Storia culture civiltà of the University of Bologna. Bologna, Italy.
18 October 2017: Invited plenary speaker at the international conference "Milano, capitale transnazionale del libro fra le due guerre", organized by: Ėcole Française de Rome, Institut Français Italia, Istituto lombardo di storia contemporanea, Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, Centro di studi per la storia dell’editoria e del giornalismo, Dipartimento di studi storici dell’Università degli studi di Milano, Civiche Raccolte Storiche Museo del Risorgimento, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Milan, Italy.
16 May 2017: Invited to take part in the event "Disputatio: History and translation – entangled perspectives". A public debate between myself and Luc van Doorslaer organized by the Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria.
20 October 2016: Invited keynote speaker at the conference "Translating Scandinavia Scandinavian Literature in Italian and German Translation, 1918-1945", organized by the Danish Academy in Rome in collaboration with the Istituto italiano di studi germanici, Rome, Italy.
29 September 2016: Invited to take part in a roundtable on methodological issues concerning translation history as part of the conference on "Translation and the Third Reich’ II. Historiographic Challenges and Approaches", organized by the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.
10 March 2016: Invited to present a paper on “The Censorship of Popular Fiction under Fascism” at the international translation studies workshop entitled "Under Surveillance - Ideology and censorship in the translation of popular fiction", organized by the Department of Political Science of the University of Perugia, Italy.
9 March 2016: Invited to give a lecture on “Politiche editoriali e traduzione durante il fascismo” as part of the series I mercoledì di scienze politiche organized by the Department of Political Science of the University of Perugia, Italy.
27 February 2015: Invited to give a seminar on “Translation in History” at the Department of Translation Studies and the Department of Romance Studies of Tallinn University, Estonia.
7 April 2014: Invited keynote speaker at the "11th Symposium of the English and Translation Society on Media and Translation", at the Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.
27 November 2013: Invited speaker in the "Seminar Series on Comparative Translation Studies" held by the Center For Intercultural Mediation Translation & Linguistics Research Group, Durham University, UK.
2-4 September 2013: Invited to deliver 3-day workshop on "Translation History" at the British Academy Sponsored Workshop "Translation Studies Research Training", Amman, Jordan.
15-16 April 2011: Invited guest speaker at the international conference "Major Issues in Translation Studies and Translators’/Interpreters’ Training", V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine.
16-17 September 2010: Invited to deliver workshop on subtitling at the "Computer Aided Translation (CAT) Tools, Internationalization, Localization and Globalization Summer School", organized by the University of Palermo, Italy.
12-13 October 2009: Invited to deliver workshop on subtitling at the "Computer Aided Translation (CAT) Tools, Internationalization, Localization and Globalization Summer School", organized by the University of Palermo, Italy.
22 May 2009: Invited to give seminar entitled "The Practice of Subtitling" at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
17 January 2009: Invited speaker at "Publishing Institutions and Translation in the Twentieth Century. A European Perspective". A one-day workshop organized by the School of Languages and European Studies, University of Reading, UK.
5 December 2008: Invited speaker at "Mapping and Framing Cultural Spaces Under a Dictatorship", a Symposium organized by Italian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK.
8 June 2007: Invited keynote speaker at "Translation and Opposition", the CTS/Multilingual Matters Symposium held at the University of Guilford, UK.
19 October 2006: Invited to give CTIS Seminar entitled "Subtitling as Interpretation" at the University of Manchester,UK.
4-5 May 2006: Invited to give a seminar entitled "Doing Research on Subtitling" at the Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, and conduct a workshop at the Ragusa site. University of Catania, Italy.
21 November 2005: Invited to give a CTIS Seminar entitled "The Permeable Police State: Publishing Translations in Fascist Italy" at the University of Manchester, UK.
(iii) Others
14 September 2017. Took part in the panel Complexity in the Design and Pedagogies of Translation Studies Programmes, with a paper on “Translator training in an Italian context”. AIA Conference, Pisa, Italy.
15 September 2016. Took part in the panel Translation policy: connecting concepts and writing history, with a paper on “When is a policy a translation policy? The difficulties of writing translation history”, at the EST Congress, Aarhus, Denmark.
20 July 2016. Took part in the panel Taking the Continent by Storm: The Politics of Anglo-American Books in 1930s and 40s Europe, with a paper on “Publishing the Enemy in Fascist Italy: Elio Vittorini’s Americana”, at the SHARP Conference (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), Paris, France.
27 June 2012. Took part in the panel Translation Invasion: Books as a threat to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, with a paper on “Translated books as a cultural threat in Fascist Italy”, at the SHARP Conference (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), Dublin, Ireland.
9 April 2010. Delivered a plenary lecture at the international conference on Between Cultures and Texts: Itineraries in Translation History, at the University of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia.
27 November 2006. Delivered a paper on “The Censorship of Translations in Fascist Italy” at the International Conference Translation And Censorship – From The 18th Century To The Present Day, at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.
10. ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS
I am a member of the following academic associations:
AIA: Associazione italiana di anglistica
EST: European Society of Translation
IATIS: International Association of Translation and Interpreting Studies
SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
11. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1) PhD in Translation Studies at the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies of the University of Warwick with a dissertation entitled The Permeable Police State. Publishing Translations in Fascist Italy (2001).
2) MA in Translation Studies (with Distinction) at the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies of the University of Warwick (1993).
3) BA Combined Honours in English and Italian at the University of London (RHC) (1986).
12. LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Mother tongue: English. Other languages: Italian (excellent), Swedish (good).
