Teresa Franco holds a BA and MA in Italian Literature from the University of Rome (La Sapienza), and a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Her doctorate focused on the twentieth-century Italian poet Giovanni Giudici and his vast corpus of translations from English. She has published work on several aspects of Giudici’s poetry and has edited three of his private notebooks. Her research interests span from literary translations and the Italian reception of foreign texts to literary journalism. She collaborates with the cultural supplement of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore and the online journal Nuovi Argomenti, and is currently Language Tutor and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Cecilia Piantanida is Teaching Fellow in Italian at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of Durham University, UK. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from King’s College London and a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis focused on the reception of Sappho and Catullus in Italian and North American twentieth-century poetry. She has published articles and presented several conference papers on different aspects of the literary and cultural reception of ancient lyric in modern and contemporary Italy, including an edition of thirty autograph translations of Sappho by Giovanni Pascoli. Alongside classical reception studies, her current research focuses on the representation of origins in contemporary national, transnational and migrant writing in Italian.