Italian Studies

Anna Aresi's dissertation, written under the direction of Ron Martinez, focused on the reception of Dante in European modernist poetry ("Modernism Through Dante: T. S. Elliot, Clemente Rebora, and Osip Mandelstam"). She has published on this topic and on Italian women’s writing. Her main interests are translation and reception studies, modernist literature, second language acquisition, and contemplative pedagogy. She one of the founding directors of a newly established literary journal, Il Pietrisco. 
Anna is a translator, editor, and educator based in Providence. Her academic interests include modernist poetry, translation, and reception studies. Among her scholarly publications are: “Dante in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets: Vision, Mysticism, and the Mind's Journey to God,” (Literature and Theology, 2015) and “Con Dante attraverso il modernismo. T. S. Eliot, Osip Mandelstam e il caso di Clemente Rebora,” in Oltre il canone. Problemi, autori e opere del modernismo italiano (Morlacchi, 2018). Her translations and essays have appeared in Solstice Literary Magazine, Asymptote Journal, and Interno Poesia, among others. Her Italian translation of Polish-born, American poet Ewa Chrusciel’s Contraband of Hoopoe (Omnidawn, 2014) was published by Edizioni Ensemble in 2019 as Contrabbando di upupe.