Research: Across and Beyond: Exophony and Self-Translation in Contemporary Women’s Writing between Italy and the USA
Giulia Travaglini is a PhD student in English Literatures, Language, and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome (curriculum in Linguistic and Translation Studies). Her doctoral project focusses on exophony and self-translation in contemporary Italo-Anglophone literature by women authors. She earned a master's degree in Linguistic, Literary and Translation Studies with a dissertation titled 'Esofonia e autotraduzione: due fronti del translinguismo post-romantico' (Sapienza University of Rome), and a master's degree in Literary Translation with a dissertation titled 'Tydinges of Translation: A Polysystem Study of the Italian Reception of Chaucer in the Years 1970-2000' (Trinity College Dublin), after studying a bachelor’s degree in Languages, Cultures and Translation (Sapienza University of Rome). As part of her undergraduate program, she studied at NOVA University of Lisbon and at National Taiwan Normal University of Taipei, where she researched the work of the Portuguese Jesuit Francisco Furtado with regard to the exportation of Aristotelian philosophy to China. She is Editorial Assistant of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism (Brill) and her research interests include literary multilingualism, literary linguistics, and sociolinguistic approaches to self-translation studies.