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Degrees:
PhD in Translation Studies, Università
di Bologna, 2007. Thesis: La traduzione
della metafora nelle novelle di William
H. Gass (The Translation
of Metaphors in the Novellas of William
H. Gass)
Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere,
Università di Bologna, 2002.
Thesis: Nuove traduzioni da Raymond
Carver (New Translations
from Raymond Carver)
Research interests:
Translation Studies, Literary Translation,
Comparative Literature, Contemporary
American Literature, Theory of Metaphor,
Cognitive linguistics, English stylistics
Research and professional
accomplishments: Enrico Monti
currently teaches Translation Studies
and English at the University of Bologna
and the University of Udine (Italy).
In 2007 he was a postdoctoral fellow
at the Institut de Recherche en Langues
et Littératures Européennes
(ILLE) of the Université de
Haute-Alsace (France), and in 2005
he was a Marco Polo fellow at Brown
University (Providence, RI). As an
undergraduate, he studied abroad at
the Centre for Russian Language and
Culture (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation,
1998) and the University of California
at Berkeley (1999-2000) and in 2001
he was awarded a dissertation scholarship
to research Raymond Carver’s
manuscripts at Indiana University
in Bloomington. He is a regular contributor
of Bibliography of Translation Studies
(TSA/BTS) and has published articles
on translation, American literature,
and cognitive linguistics: "Translating
the Metaphors We Live By: Intercultural
Negotiations in Conceptual Metaphors"
in EJES 13:2 (2009), "Il
miglior fabbro? On Gordon Lish’s
Editing of Raymond Carver’s
What We Talk About When We Talk
About Love" in Raymond
Carver Review 1 (2007); "Dwelling
upon Metaphors: The Translation of
William Gass’s Novellas"
in Nordic Journal of English Studies
5:1 (2006), and "Metaphors for
Metaphor Translation", "Métaphores
spatiales dans le discours sur la
traduction: la cinétique de
la littérature traduite"
(under press). He is also a literary
translator and has published Italian
translations of fictions by George
Hagen, ZZ Packer, Amiri Baraka, William
Gass, Brian Evenson and Richard Brautigan.
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