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, in 2004, she was also tutor on the Master in Cultural Event Management. Since then she has been teaching Italian language in two schools in Sydney.

Margherita is currently in the second year of candidature for a PhD on Australian Artist Brett Whiteley. Her areas of interest include comparative literature, translation in literature and the visual arts, and art and language.

• Comparative literature
• Contemporary literature
• Translation studies

• “Ab origena. Della letteratura aborigena australiana,” Semicerchio (Florence: Le Lettere - University of Siena), 34, 2006, pp. 1-12.

• “Figures of Speech | Figure retoriche,” forthcoming in Literature & Aesthetics, 2007.

• “Translation | Imagination. Brett Whiteley’s Vision of Europe – European Vision of Brett Whiteley,” paper presented at the AILAE symposium Imagined Australia, Monash University, Prato, Italy, May 2007.
  “From Piero della Francesca to Brett Whiteley,” ACIS Conference, Griffith University, July 2007.