Biography and interests

Marianna Deganutti is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Previously she was awarded a DAAD fellowship at LMU and was a postdoc for UNREST at the University of Bath. She holds a degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences at the University of Trieste, a degree in Philosophy at the University of Milan,and a master and a D.Phil (PhD) in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are literary multilingualism, borderland writers and trauma studies.

Current projects:

• member of the IMPULZ-2022-68 project "Translation and Cross-Lingual Stylistic Transfer"
• co-leader of the Working Group 6 at the Cost Action A24137 (MultiLiLiTrans)
• co-founder of the ICLA Committee "Language Contact in Literature: Europe (LCLE)"
• contributor to the "Hungarian and Slovak Literature in the Central European Cultural Space" mobility programme
• co-founder of LangueFlow, an international research group focusing on literary multilingualism
• external scientific consultant at the International Centre on Plurilingualism (Centro Internazionale sul Plurilinguismo - CEIP), University of Udine

Latest news:

• The volume Sea of Literatures (in which I contributed an essay on Matvejević) has been awarded as the best essay collection on the topic of the Mediterranean 2022-2024 by the Mediterranean Seminar
• I won the "San Vito poetry prize" with the collection of poems Moj jezik v tvojih besedah - La mia lingua nelle tue parole

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