Associate Professor
SLAV-01/A Slavistica
alessandro.amenta@uniroma2.it
Other professional positions
Member of the PhD Program Committee in “Comparative Studies: Languages, Literatures, and Arts”, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Delegate for International Mobility, Area: Poland, Department of History, Humanities and Society, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Positions held
2006-2009 Adjunct Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
2007-2009 Postdoc Research Fellow, Sapienza University of Rome
2009-2018 Adjunct Professor, Tor Vergata University of Rome
2017-2019 Postdoc Research Fellow, Tor Vergata University of Rome
2019-2022 Senior Assistant Professor, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Education
1997-2001 MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Sapienza University of Rome, magna cum laude
2003-2006 PhD Candidate in Modern and Contemporary Slavic Literatures, University of Milan
Teaching Positions
Chair of Polish Language and Translation
Awards
Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture (Zasłużony dla kultury polskiej) awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, 2012
Award “Maria Baiocchi” for the best PhD Dissertation in Gender and Queer Studies, 2006
Fields of research
Translation Studies; Onomastics; Reception theory and reception of Polish literature in Italy; Fantasy and Science Fiction; Gender and Queer Studies in Central and Eastern Europe; Interwar and post-89 Polish Literature
Editorial boards
Editor-in-Chief of the Class A journal “pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi” (plitonline.it)
Section Editor (Polish Studies) of the Class A journal “Studi Slavistici”
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Załącznik Kulturoznawczy”
Member of the Scientific Board of the Class A journal “Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny”
Member of the Scientific Board of the editorial series “SagUni Lingue e Letterature” for Giulio Perrone Editore
Member of the Scientific Board of the journal “Quaderni di Palazzo Serr
Peer Reviewer for the following journals
“Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History”
“Avant. Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies”
“CoSMo. Comparative Studies in Modernism”
“Czas Kultury”
“Forum Lingwistyczne”
“Il Nome nel testo”
“Italica Wratislaviensia”
“Lingue e Linguaggi”
“Litteraria Copernicana”
“Ricerche Slavistiche”
“Załącznik Kulturoznawczy”
Research training and grants
Principal Investigator for the project Ritraduzione, editoria e ricezione nell’Europa dei totalitarismi (Retranslation, publishing industry and reception in totalitarian Europe), Tor Vergata University of Rome
Member of the Research Group MeTE (European Mediators and Translators), Tor Vergata University of Rome
Member of the Research Group “Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki” funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2015-2021)
Postdoc Research Fellowship in Slavic Studies, Tor Vergata University of Rome, project title: La decostruzione del mito nella letteratura femminile contemporanea in Polonia (The deconstruction of the myth in Polish contemporary women literature), duration: one year (2017-2018)
Postdoc Research Fellowship in Slavic Studies, Tor Vergata University of Rome, project title: Zuzanna Ginczanka e le altre. Il gender nelle poetesse polacche degli anni Trenta (Zuzanna Ginczanka and the Others. Gender issues in the Polish poetesses of the 30s), duration: two years (2007-2009
Selected international colloquia and papers
Zuzanna Ginczanka e la gabbia del corpo, conference Donne e vincoli, Tor Vergata University of Rome, April 28, 2022
L’allostoria come riflessione sul presente. Gli imperi tremano di Jacek Dukaj, international conference Possible Worlds, Tuscia University, Viterbo, April 20-22, 2022
“Divenire sorelle”. Narcyza Żmichowska e il gruppo delle Entusiaste, conference Genere, storia, diversità, culture. Questioni che toccano l’educazione, Tor Vergata University of Rome, October 13, 2020
Transgresja elementu znaczącego: opowiadania Gombrowicza a ich włoski przekład (with Dario Prola), international conference Przekład jako aneksja kulturowa dzieła, Międzywydziałowy Zespół Komparatystyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Wydział Artes Liberales, Wydział I Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego Językoznawstwo i Nauki o Literaturze, September 23, 2020
Oltre il genere: tradurre (il) queer, international conference Transizioni fra lingue e culture, University of Genua, November 15, 2019
La rivisitazione del paganesimo slavo nelle scrittrici fantasy polacche, international conference La riscrittura al femminile del mito nel panorama letterario slavo dal Novecento ai giorni nostri, University of Salento, Lecce, May 16-17, 2019
Tradurre (il) queer nella letteratura polacca contemporanea, international conference (Ad)versus culturam: l’omosessualità al centro e ai margini della letteratura e dell’arte polacca, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, November 16, 2018
Il simbolismo floreale nella poesia di Antonia Pozzi e Krystyna Krahelska, international conference Dal monologo al polilogo: l’Italia nel mondo. Lingue, letterature e culture in contatto, University of Warsaw, April 6-8, 2017
Gente Ruthenus, Natione Polonus. La poesia di confine di Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, international conference Disappartenenze. Figure del distacco e altre solitudini nelle letterature dell’Europa Centro-Orientale, University of Turin, March 5-6, 2015
La prosa poetica: il caso di Ewa Lipska (with Marina Ciccarini), conference Brevitas. Letture e scritture a confronto, Tor Vergata University of Rome, February 25-26, 2015
Le sorelle Garosci traduttrici dal polacco, conference I Maestri della polonistica italiana, Polish Academy of Sciences in Rome, October 17-18, 2013