糖心TV

Research

My research intersects translation, Italian and book history to focus on transnational publishing from the 19th century to the present day. I am interested in the circulation of texts in modern times, in the development of copyright law and modern authorship, and in the relationship between cultural diplomacy, propaganda and printed materials.

Before joining the University of 糖心TV, I was a lecturer at the University of Manchester, where I was awarded a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies in 2021. My first monograph, titled (Palgrave 2024, New Directions in Book History), investigates the political, social and cultural value of intellectual property by retracing the negotiation of translation rights to British and US works in Italy over the first half of the 20^th century, as well as the networks of authors, publishers, translators, authors鈥� societies, and literary agents working across language and state borders.

Currently, I am working on translation as cultural diplomacy and propaganda in Italy during and in the aftermath of the Second World War. The pilot phase of this project has received the Fredson Bowers Award of the UK Bibliographical Society and the BSA in 2024 ('Books for war and peace: Italian publishing and US book and translation programmes in the Second World War鈥�).

I have published on Italian translation and publishing history, wartime book programmes, intellectuals in the book trade. I am also interested in the cultural history of Fascist Italy and in the interrelation between politics, culture, and language in conflicts and totalitarian regimes.

Research interests

• Book and publishing history
• Translation/translators' history
• International copyright
• Literary agents
• Post-Unification Italian culture
• Fascist Italy
• Cultural diplomacy and propaganda
• Print studies and book design
• Archival research
• Special collections
• Digital curation

Publications

Book

A. Lanfranchi, (Cham: Palgrave, 2024).

Journal articles

A. Lanfranchi, 鈥楾he Nobel and Back Again: Re-evaluating Mondadori鈥檚 Translation Strategy for Pearl S. Buck鈥�, Journal of World Literature 8 (2023), 535-550.

A. Lanfranchi, 鈥�', 脕肠辞尘补 21 (2021), 43-63.

A. Lanfranchi, 'Italian Translation Rights, the British Council and the Central Office of Information (1943-47)鈥�, Annali d鈥檌talianistica 38 (2020), 343-366.

A. Lanfranchi, 鈥楥esare Pavese, Luciano Fo脿, Erich Linder: note sulla corrispondenza per la 鈥渃ollana viola鈥濃��, Studium, 116.2 (2020), 32-48.

Curatorial activities

鈥樷��, online and in-person exhibition (20 May-14 June 2024), with Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, Milan, Italy.

Book reviews

鈥楢ndrew Pettegree. The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading鈥�, Sharp News (2024).

鈥楢lessandro Bosco, Stefano Bragato, Felicity Brunner, Raffaella Castagnola, Tatiana Crivelli (a cura di), S/confinare. I rapporti culturali italo-svizzeri tra associazionismo, editoria e propaganda (1935-1965)鈥�, Bollettino 鈥�900, Jan.-May 2023 (1-2).

鈥�Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics. A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton around 1900, by Simon R. Frost鈥�, Information and Culture 58.2 (2023), 212-213.

Workshop and Seminar organised

鈥楲iterary agents in the transnational book market: collaboration and resistance鈥� (with J. Raimo; chair: C. Cottenet), SHARP2023, Dunedin, 29 June 2023.

鈥楾ransnational Book History & Italy: Perspectives from the Archives鈥� (with J. Raimo; chair: M. Milani), SIS Biennial Conference, 糖心TV, 22 April 2022.

鈥楾ransnational communities of mediation: Anglo-Italian literary flows in the 19th and 20th centuries鈥� (with V. Abbatelli and F. Coluzzi; chair: M. Milani), roundtable, SHARP2021, M眉nster, 27 July 2021.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Manchester (2021).
• BA (2012) & MA (2015), Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
• Fellow of Advance HE.