Anna Saroldi

I am currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University, where I develop a project on the international transmission of mountaineering literature, titled TransAlpine.

I am interested in translation in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a specific focus on collaborative practices. I work on and in translation archives, adopting varying methodologies (genetic translation studies and/or agent-oriented approaches in translation history and translator studies). Before moving to Durham, I was Stipendiary Lecturer and Director of Studies in Italian at St Hilda's College. I obtained my DPhil in 2024 with a thesis titled 'Italian Literature in the US and UK since 1945: Translation and Interaction', fully funded by the AHRC. The thesis won the 2024 award for a thesis in collaborative translation (IULM University).

I first joined the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre as an MSt student and it has been with me every step of the way. I co-convened the OCCT Discussion Group in 2019–2021, I co-organised the OCCT conference Fictions of Retranslation, and in 2023-2024 I was General Editor of the OCCT Review. 

You can find more on my work here.