Jacob Blakesley Editor & Author

Federica Coluzzi is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. She was previously Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork, Ireland. Her first monograph Dante Beyond Influence: Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture came out in 2021. Her research encompasses reception theory and Dante studies, nineteenth-century periodicals, and the history of publishing and reading. She has published in Dante Studies, Tre Corone, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, Nineteenth Century Prose, Studium, and Strumenti Critici.

Jacob Blakesley is Professor in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation at the University of Leeds, UK, where he co-directs the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies. He directs the Leeds Studies on Dante series (with Matthew Treherne), and the Routledge Studies in Literary Translation series (with Duncan Large). He has published two monographs, A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: Modern European Poet-Translators (2018) and Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible (2014), and edited Sociologies of Poetry Translation: Emerging Perspectives (2018). He is currently writing the first global translation history of Dante’s Commedia.