Research: Audiovisual Translation of Gender-Diverse Characters on the Small Screen: A Study on the Italian Translations of British and American TV Series
Valerio Monticelli is a PhD student enrolled in the programme Studies in English Literatures, Language, and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome (curriculum in English Language and Translation). In 2024, he completed a master’s degree in English and Anglo-American Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis titled “Fashioning the History of the English Language: Victorian Canons and the Oxford English Dictionary”, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Lingue, Culture, Letterature e Traduzione at the same university. His research project examines the audiovisual translation of gender-diverse characters in British and American TV series. His research interests include audiovisual translation, reception studies, queer and trans studies, and the history of the English language. He is a member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), the European Society for Translation Studies (EST), the Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA), and the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).