Teaching Comp Lit @KingsDLLC. DPhil from @engfac. Words in @LAReviewofBooks, @TheTLS, @asymptotejrnl, & more. Classicist by training.
Joined February 2022
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7 Jun 2023
Larry Venuti's landmark translation of Il deserto dei Tartari has just been published in @nyrbclassics and I've written about it in @LAReviewofBooks:
7 Jun 2023
Caterina Domeneghini (@catedomen) considers the way different translations can reposition a classic novel in history in her review of "The Stronghold," Lawrence Venuti’s new translation of Dino Buzzati. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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18 Sep 2025
In a new review, Caterina Domeneghini (@catedomen) studies a surge in translation to English of the work of Dino Buzzati. “This new translation project doesn’t just revive Buzzati,” she argues, “it reframes him.”
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17 Sep 2025
I've got a new piece out on Dino Buzzati and his haunted middle classes - huge thanks to @bcqer and @PublicBooks for the brilliant editorial work!
17 Sep 2025
New at PB: In a new review of Dino Buzzati's "The Bewitched Bourgeouis" (@nyrbclassics), @catedomen asks: How useful is it to apply an Anglo-American cultural label to an Italian writer whose literary landscape lacked a direct equivalent?
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7 Feb 2025
Our special issue for New American Studies Journal is out and is open access! nasjournal.org/NASJ/issue/vi…. Featuring @XanderManshel on historical fiction, Edwin Frank on @nyrbclassics, Susan Hegeman on classics and culture wars, Rochelle Gurstein on ephemeral masterpieces, & more!
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28 Nov 2023
Research spotlights🔎
With projects ranging from racial surveillance to Japanese experimental film, a selection of #WolfsonScholars share their research with the wider group and reflect on their postgraduate experience.
ALT A group of students take part in a panel discussion on a stage.
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23 Dec 2022
Caterina's post, entitled 'Cheap Books for Everyman', examines cheap ‘classic’ books and their ever-changing defining attributes within the frame of a well-established cultural and educational phenomenon in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
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23 Dec 2022
Two new posts in the Realigning Reception takeover are now up in a Christmas Double Bill! Claire Barnes and Caterina Domeneghini offer two unique perspectives on the subject of 'Classics and the Mass Market'...
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20 Oct 2022
Ukraine-born artist Sergey Katran struggled with art-making in the face of war. But deciding he would not be silenced, he conceived an entire exhibition—featured in our slideshow (along with Dostoevskyesque mushrooms!).
An interview with the man himself: tinyurl.com/2p8f2353
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20 Oct 2022
“Translation . . . is a democratic furnace of hope.”
@catedomen reviews a new collection of essays by trilingual writer Jhumpa Lahiri, unpicking the many strands of a life lived between three languages. tinyurl.com/5fmrkps9
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20 Oct 2022
It’s HERE! On the heels of Roe being overturned, our FALL ISSUE centers women's voices and their lived experiences; Kyung-Sook Shin, Montserrat Roig, and Emma Ramadan are in the house!
Discover new work from 32 countries—including a spotlight on #Armenia: asymptotejournal.com/oct-202…
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17 Oct 2022
"If narrative stands as the dominant mode of representing and interpreting reality, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two." @catedomen reviews Peter Brooks’s “Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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11 Jul 2022
Thank you @sharpamsterdam, Prof. Kuitert and my fellow speakers for a wonderful kick-off. Thrilled to have presented on books as textual universes in Everyman's Library, "Rewriting and reprinting for social change" panel. Loads of food for thought!
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8 Jun 2022
"...when we are losing a language, we are also losing a certain perception of the world."
In light of Sergey Katran's latest exhibition, "Until the Word is Gone," @catedomen speaks to the artist about language and the war in his native country, Ukraine:
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'Here Classics meets anthropology, and the result is a cautionary tale far from the disciplinary romance that Herodotus once envisioned with his own ethnographic enquiry.' (@catedomen)
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22 Apr 2022
Rare Book Collection fellow Caterina Domeneghini @catedomen from @UniofOxford Dept. of English is researching for “Classics in English, English Classics: Reading J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library from Greco-Roman Antiquity to Nationalism and World Literature”
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8 Feb 2022
My review of Francis Bacon: Man and Beast for @artribune at the @royalacademy
5 Feb 2022
La grande mostra a Londra su Francis Bacon ift.tt/A2sd9py
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