Italian-English Inflections and Prospections, Part 2

In the social context, how are we conveying today our emerging understandings of embodiment/identity (migration, dialect/campanilismo, race, gender, orientation, age, class, pronoun usage, etc.)? What shifts according to period/genre? How are these concerns shaping, in turn, the kinds of works we choose to translate? The roundtable also showcases a new series dedicated to publishing “Other Voices of Italy,” and aims to establish an information bank of publishers, prizes, and opportunities specifically dedicated to Italian literary translation. Format: Participants are invited to reflect and share their Italian translation contexts/challenges. Co-organizers will pre-circulate examples of existing resources, requesting participants to add information for subsequent dissemination.

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Organizers

Sherry Roush (PhD Yale), Professor of Italian at Penn State University. A 2017 Middlebury Bread Loafer, she received 2020 NEA and NEH grants to support her current translation project: Jacopo Caviceo’s 1508 prose romance Peregrino. She edited and translated Tommaso Campanella’s Selected Philosophical Poems, in addition to authoring two monographs on poetic self-commentary and ghost storytelling.  Alessandro Vettori (PhD Yale), Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Rutgers and Co-Founder of the new Rutgers University Press series Other Voices of Italy: Italian and Transnational Texts in Translation. He has published widely on Giuseppe Berto, the Three Crowns, Franciscan Spiritual Poetry, and co-edited a volume for the Italian Poetry Society of America on present-day poets.

Participants

Hannah Marcus is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science. Her research focuses on the scientific culture of early modern Europe between 1400 and 1700. Marcus is the author of Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy and the translator of Camilla Erculiani, Letters on Natural Philosophy (2021). Crystal Hall, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and the Director of the Digital and Computational Studies Program at Bowdoin College. She is author of Galileo’s Reading with Cambridge University Press, and she has transcribed and translated the Selected Letters of Vernon Lee in four volumes for Routledge and is producing a translation and digital humanities edition of Galileo’s Assayer. Fiona M. Stewart is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Italian Studies at Pepperdine University. Her research and publications focus on 20th-century Italian experience and its representation, particularly in film and in the works of the oral historian Nuto Revelli (1919-2004). She is currently preparing an English translation of Revelli’s Il disperso di Marburg (1994). Eilis Kierans is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Rutgers University. She is Co-Editor of the translation series Other Voices of Italy: Italian and Transnational Texts in Translation. She has translated and published selected poems from Ada Negri’s Il dono, and she is currently translating Anna Maria Ortese’s Le piccole persone. Giuseppe Bruno-Chomin holds a PhD in Italian Studies. He is Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Instructor of Italian at Curtis Institute of Music. He has translated across a variety of genres, from Italian to English and vice versa. His most recent translations include Irene Fosi’s monograph, Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome (Brill, 2020). Danielle Pieratti holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and a Certificate in Literary Translation from the University of Connecticut, where she is pursuing a PhD in English. Her translation from Italian of Maria Borio’s Trasparenza is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in 2021. Patience Haggin translates Italian fiction. She studied Literary Translation at Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” in Naples, Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her translations have been published by Dalkey Archive Press, Asymptote, and Circumference. E.P. Floyd’s work can be found in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and Lunch Ticket. Floyd translates novels and short stories from Italian. Current projects in English include two novels and an essay collection. She holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BA in journalism from UW-Madison. Dr. Bradford A. Masoni is an author and translator who specializes in literary modernism. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His book, Pirandello Proto-Modernist: A New Reading of L’esclusa, was published in 2019 by Peter Lang Oxford, and his translation of L’esclusa is forthcoming from Rutgers UP. He lives and works as a writer in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Originally from Chicago, Leah Janeczko has lived in Milan since 1991 and has 25 years of experience as an Italian-to-English literary translator for all ages. Her recent translations include the children’s poem “Is There Something in the Air?” by Roberto Piumini and the novel The Women at Hitler’s Table by Rosella Postorino. Oonagh Stransky is a translator of Italian literature since 2001: Pontiggia, Lucarelli, Saviano, Pope Francis, Spaziani, Pericoli, Stassi, Baldelli, and others. She is currently translating Montale’s Farfalla di Dinard with Marla Moffa for NYRB. Middlebury Translation Conference 2019, Columbia University MA in Italian; Mills College and UC Berkeley BA in Comparative Literature. www.oonaghstransky.com. Johanna Bishop is a full-time translator of contemporary Italian fiction, poetry, history, and art writing. Dozens of her translations have appeared in the bilingual review TheFLR and other journals and anthologies, and recent books include Tamam Shud, a novel by visual artist Alex Cecchetti. She lives in Tuscany. Angela Allyn is an emerging translator currently working on Eugenio Montale’s Ossi di Seppia. She is interested in the context in which Montale wrote Ossi di Seppia and the ways in which his poetry dealt with living under the fascist regime while eluding fascist censors. This context has been lacking in English translations and writing about Ossi di Seppia.