Dr Arianna Autieri

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.