Auteur: Cecilia Piantanida

Cecilia Piantanida is Teaching Fellow in Italian at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of Durham University, UK. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from King”s College London and a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis focused on the reception of Sappho and Catullus in Italian and North American twentieth-century poetry. She has published articles and presented several conference papers on different aspects of the literary and cultural reception of ancient lyric in modern and contemporary Italy, including an edition of thirty autograph translations of Sappho by Giovanni Pascoli. Alongside classical reception studies, her current research focuses on the representation of origins in contemporary national, transnational and migrant writing in Italian.