Vincenzo SALERNO | Curriculum

Vincenzo Salerno:

Vincenzo Salerno is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Università di Salerno. Secretary General of SIT (Italian Society of Translation Studies), since 2019 he has been Director of the “Alfonso Gatto” Interdepartmental Study Center of the University of Salerno and “Domenico Rea” Study Center. He collaborates in the six-month periodical of theory and history of literary translation “Testo a fronte”. He is a member of the scientific committee of the NEU publishing house (Nuova Editrice Universitaria) with reference to the series “Accademia” and “Accademia-Profili”. He is a member of the board committee of the Quarterly “Testi e Linguaggi”.

His research focuses mainly on issues of theory and history of literary translation in the classical world, in Italian literature and in English-speaking literatures. He has also dealt with travel literature, Italian poetry from the Risorgimento, contemporary Italian fiction and poetry and the production - editorial and literary - of artist's books in Italy and England.

For the University of Cassino he organized and curated the exhibitions: "Dante's Inferno. A natural history "(exhibition of images created by Patrick Waterhouse and taken from the volume Dante's Inferno. A natural history, Mondadori-Fabrica 2011; Castello Angioino di Gaeta, 24 March-6 May 2012); "Dante's hells in contemporary Italian illustration" (CAMUSAC-Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Fabrica, Mondadori, Rizzoli, Corraini; 2-16 Cassino December 2013); "Shakespeare Now" (selection of fifteen artist books inspired by the works of William Shakespeare, from the collection of Liverpool Book Art, University of Cassino - Sarno Valley National Archaeological Museum, Sarno 6 December 2016 - 6 January 2017). For the University of Salerno he organized the conferences: "Portare all’altra riva. Tradurre la letteratura contemporanea", (University of Salerno, 11-12 November 2019); and the international conference "Domenico Rea "L'estro furioso", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Italian author's birth.