Dr Arianna Autieri
Staff details

Arianna is a Lecturer in Translation Studies and Deputy Programme Coordinator of the MA in Translation
Academic qualifications
- PGA in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (University of Warwick) 2023
- PhD, Translation Studies (University of Warwick) 2022
- Associate Fellow Advance HE (Pedagogy) 2021
- MA - European and Extraeureopean Languages and Literature (literary translation) (University of Milan) 2017
- BA - Music - Classical Guitar (Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan) 2015
- BA Foreign Languages and Literature (English and Spanish) (University of Milan) 2013
Teaching and Supervision
Arianna was appointed Lecturer in Translation Studies in 2023. Before joining Goldsmiths, she held a position at the University of Warwick, where she was engaged in Translation Studies and interdisciplinary teaching and research.
Supervision:
Alhussien Elhishani: "The Treatment of Gastronomic Culture-Specific items in literary translation: A Farewell to Arms in Arabic"
Teaching:
Research interests
In her research Arianna is studying the translation experiences of selected modernist and postmodernist experimental writers. She is also interested in investigating how, in these contexts, unconventional approaches to literary translation practice which treat translation as a type of experimental writing itself and as an interpretive activity have been essential for the development of new literary styles.
In her past research Arianna studied how the translation act can serve as a critical tool for understanding the “music” of Joyce’s “Sirens”, which Joyce claimed to have written adopting the musical technique of the “fuga per canonem” (JJ, 462). Arianna’s translation professional practice is deeply connected to her research, and her study has given rise to her “experimental translation” (Scott 2012, 2018) of “Sirens” into Italian. Her monograph, 'James Joyce’s Music Performed: the ‘Sirens’ fugue in Experimental Re-Translation', which includes her experimental translation of Joyce’s “Sirens” into Italian, is forthcoming with Legenda in 2024.
Arianna has published several articles on translation, Joyce, and music; her "100 years of ‘Sirens’ songs. Musical allusions in the Italian Ulysses-es”, is forthcoming in the collection of essays arising from the Centenary James Joyce Symposium (Dublin 2022), edited by Tim Conley, Valérie Bénéjam, and Sam Slote. For her translation of "Sirens", Arianna was awarded a Friends of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation Scholarship in 2020; her translation, forthcoming with Legenda, has also been part of the Ulysses von 100 Seiten exhibition at the Strauhof Museum in Zürich in 2022.
Further profile content
Featured publications
James Joyce’s Music Performed: the ‘Sirens’ fugue in Experimental Re-Translation
Monograph and experimental translation of "Sirens" into Italian, Forthcoming with Legenda
2023:
On Curatorship - Hans Ulrich Obrist
Translation - (It>en, subtitles)
2019:
Translating Joyce’s Musical Language: ‘The Dead’
in Language and Languages in Joyce’s Fiction. Joyce Studies in Italy, vol. 21, 2019, pp. 95-112.
2019:
La «verbal music» di James Joyce in traduzione
in Teoria Testo Traduzione. 2019, vol. 11, pp. 407-429
2019:
James Joyce’s ‘Linguistic Musicality’
in Il Tolomeo, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, vol. 20, 2018, pp. 183-208
Professional projects
Arianna is a translator for the PirandelloinTranslation.org project and for Institution Lab
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Grants and awards
CADRE (Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence at Warwick)
2018-2022
2021: The International James Joyce Foundation Scholarship
2020: The Friends of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation Scholarship (The Zürich James Joyce Foundation)
2020: HRC (Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick) Doctoral Fellowship Competition
2020: HRF (Humanities Research Fund at the University of Warwick)
2019: Giorgio Melchiori Grant
2019: Trieste Joyce School scholarship
Other
Arianna has co-organised several impact events on literary translation, including a conference entitled “Breaking down the walls of Babel: dialogues in translation. An interdisciplinary conference” , funded by the Humanities Research Centre at Warwick; a translation industry event, entitled “Breaking the glass ceiling: women in translation in dialogue”, organised in collaboration with the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and funded by the Arts Impact Fund at Warwick; and a translation workshop for translation professionals and academics, entitled “Assessment of Quality in (Re)translating Musicalized Prose: A Case Study on the Finnish, Swedish, and Italian (Re)translations of the ‘Sirens’ Episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses”, in the context of KäTu XVIII Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies”.
Arianna is also a classical guitar performer. She founded the classical guitar duo “Duomo” with Lorenzo Paparazzo in 2016.