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Margherita Zanoletti

IPRS holder and PhD candidate


Margherita Zanoletti has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, with majors in English and Russian, from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, where she also tutored in the Master of Cultural Event Management. She currently teaches Italian language and culture in various schools and universities in Sydney.

After a semester as a research affiliate to the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College, London, Margherita is nearing completion of a PhD on the Australian artist Brett Whiteley (1939-92). Her thesis focuses on the link between words and images in Whiteley’s work from a translation studies perspective.

Research Areas

  • Comparative literature
  • Art history
  • Translation studies
  • Italian studies

Recent Publications

Books

(ed.) Arte è poesia – poesie di Oodegeroo Noonuccal, Milan: Ab.Origena, December 2003.

Book chapters

"In other images. Brett Whiteley’s image of Europe | Europe’s image of Brett Whiteley", in Summo O’Connell, R. (ed.), Imagined Australia, Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.

"Self in Translation", in Bellina, E., Eufusia, L., Ugolini, P. (eds.), About Face: Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2009.

Articles

  • “Figures of Speech | Figure retoriche - Verbal and Visual in Brett Whiteley” in Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney, December 2007, p. 192-208.
  • "Della letteratura aborigena australiana" Semicerchio (Florence: Le Lettere - University of Siena), 34, 2006, pp. 1-12.

Forthcoming Publications

  • "Translating paintings. Brett Whiteley’s case", in Wilson, R., Maher, B. (eds.), Words, Sounds and Images in Translation, London: Continuum, 2011.

Conference Activity

  • Self in Translation. About Face, Italian Studies Graduate Conference, New York University, February-March 2008.
  • From Piero della Francesca to Brett Whiteley. ACIS Biennal Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, July 2007.
  • Translation | Imagination: Brett Whiteley’s Vision of Europe – European Vision of Brett Whiteley. AILAE Symposium, Monash University, Prato, May 2007.
  • Figure retoriche | Figures of Speech: Verbal and Visual in Brett Whiteley. Translating Australian Spaces, School of Languages and Cultures & The Australian Association for Literary Translation, University of Sydney, November 2006.