Translation

Translation across scholarship, literature, and professional work.

My translation work includes market-research interviews, a bilingual book on a guitar collection, and texts for businesses.

For lay0ut, I translated poetry and essays into Italian, including work by Christian Lehnert, Marcel Beyer, Emanuele Coccia, and Jesse McCarthy.

In my academic work, I translated an early essay by Giorgio Agamben into English for PMLA, with an introduction. I am also translating Coccia’s “Cosmology of Breath” for the anthology I co-edit with Lenart Škof.

• Christian Lehnert, three poems from Aufkommender AtemThree poems by Christian Lehnert, translated into Italian with an introduction on breath and spirit in his poetry.Translation DE→IT, with an introduction · lay0ut magazine · 20212021
• Marcel Beyer, three poems — Poetica dell’orecchioThree poems by Marcel Beyer and an accompanying text by Sebastian Brass, translated into Italian.Translation DE→IT · lay0ut magazine · 20222022
• Emanuele Coccia, Con i piedi per il cieloAn Italian translation of Emanuele Coccia’s essay on the sky, ecology, and our place in the air.Translation FR→IT · lay0ut magazine · 20212021
• Emanuele Coccia, Il demone dei videogiochiAn Italian translation of Emanuele Coccia’s essay on video games and the experience of living through another body.Translation FR→IT · lay0ut magazine · 20232023
• Tristan Garcia, L’intensità come paradigma della modernità — un’introduzioneAn introduction to Tristan Garcia’s La vita intensa that questions the demand to make life ever more intense.Critical introduction · lay0ut magazine · 20222022
• Jesse McCarthy, Low End Theory — un estrattoAn Italian translation of an extract from Jesse McCarthy’s “Low End Theory,” his essay on Fred Moten.Translation EN→IT · lay0ut magazine · 20222022
• Giorgio Agamben, “The ‘Dark Night’ of Juan de la Cruz”An English translation of Agamben’s essay on John of the Cross, with an introduction to its place in his early work.Translation IT→EN, with an introduction · PMLA 137.3 · 20222022
• Philosophy of Breath: A Critical AnthologyA forthcoming anthology on the philosophy of breath, co-edited with Lenart Škof.Co-edited volume · Bloomsbury Academic · 2027
• Translator & Proofreader, Conservatorio “Arrigo Pedrollo”Translating seven interviews with luthiers and one testimony into English, and proofreading a bilingual book on the conservatory’s guitar collection.A book on the conservatory’s guitar collection · Vicenza · 2025
• Freelance Translator, BabbletypeTranscribing and translating Italian market-research recordings into English.Market research, straight from the audio · remote · 2015 — 2017
• Translator, Podere ScheggiollaTranslating a winery’s promotional leaflet into English as part of an agricultural export-support program.A winery’s leaflet into English · Siena · 2015
• Managing Editor, lay0ut magazineManaging an editorial team of more than fifteen contributors, commissioning and editing work on translation and digital culture, and contributing my own writing and translations.European translations & digital culture · Milan · 2022 — 2024
• Interview with Emanuele Coccia on AtmosphereA conversation with Emanuele Coccia about atmosphere.Interview · Venti Journal 3.2, Cross-Cultural Atmospheres · 2026
• Philosophy of the Poetic 切れ字 (kireji): From Emptiness and kire-tsuzuki to AtmosphereA lecture on cutting words, breath, and atmosphere in Japanese poetry, through Nishitani and Ōhashi.Lecture · Japanese Philosophy Network, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy · 21 July 2026
• “Kireji, Caesura, Atmosphere: A Preliminary Cross-Cultural and Philosophical Comparison”A comparison of Japanese cutting words and European caesuras through Nishitani and Agamben.Invited article · Contemporary and Applied Philosophy 17 · 2026