Marta Arnaldi

• Arnaldi, Marta (2024). The Translational Turn in Narrative Medicine: A Study of Margherita Guidacci's Neurosuite, submitted. Encounters in Translation. ISSN 2427-5409.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2024). Alda Merini and the Making of Lyrical Psychiatry, in The Routledge Handbook of Medicine and Poetry, ed. by Alan Bleakley and Shane Neilson (London: Routledge). Routledge International Handbooks.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Translational Futures: Notes on Ecology and Translation from the COVID-19 Crisis: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare. I Wilson, Steven & Blumczynski, Piotr (Red.), The Languages of COVID-19 Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare. Routledge. ISSN 9781032213231.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Illness as a Foreign Tongue: Therapeutic Translation in Contemporary Italian Women's Poetry. Literature and medicine. ISSN 0278-9671. 40(2), s. 295–325. Vis sammendrag

  This article puts translation on the center stage of second-wave medical humanities. It argues that translation is a way to describe medical discourse in its complexities, from the patient-doctor exchange to the patients' account of their illness, and from instances of medical (mis)communication to the lack thereof (untranslatability). After introducing the notion of therapeutic translation in the light of Julia Kristeva's theory of depression, it puts forward three models of therapeutic translation: outer translation, inner translation, and self-translation. This newly forged method is applied to a series of exemplary cases drawn from the repertoire of contemporary Italian women's poetry.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Contagious Otherness: Translating Communicable Diseases in the Modern Italian and Francophone Novel. Open Library of Humanities. ISSN 2056-6700. 8(1). doi: 10.16995/olh.4714. Vis sammendrag

  The words ‘contagion’ (‘to touch together') and ‘translation’ (‘to carry across’) share a common course of action and meaning, i.e. that of breaking what ‘should be joined or joining [what] should be separate’ (Douglas, 1966: 113). Continuous yet imperceptible, ideas of risk, corruption and error have been attached as much to the transfer of texts, beliefs and theories as to the spread of diseases. Our immune system fights against outsiders, just like national cultures can shield themselves from the foreign. Yet, if we have come to accept that contagion can be understood as a ‘foundational concept in the study of [literature], of religion and of society’ (Wald, 2008: 2), translation’s epidemiological dimensions have remained relatively unexplored. What do the art of translation and epidemiological science have in common, and how can they inform one another? Why is contagion culturally valuable, but physiologically destructive? How can translation theory contribute to an innovative biocultural epistemology of contagion? This essay aims to address these questions by shedding light on the implicit, yet understudied, translation-contagion link. It offers the first comparative analysis of its kind, covering three centuries (19th century-present), two languages (Italian and French), and four contagious diseases (plague, smallpox, Ebola and AIDS). It provides an interdisciplinary model that allows us to approach the study of literature and epidemiology in a synergetic, non-exclusive way, based on the double mobilisation, or ‘entanglement’ (Whitehead et al., 2016), of literary and medical knowledge.

• Arnaldi, Marta; Engebretsen, Eivind & Forsdick, Charles (2022). Translating COVID-19: From Contagion to Containment . Journal of Medical Humanities. ISSN 1041-3545. 43, s. 387–404. doi: 10.1007/s10912-022-09742-5. Vis sammendrag

  This article tests the hypothesis that all pandemics are inherently translational. We argue that translation and translation theory can be fruitfully used to understand and manage epidemics, as they help us explore concepts of infectivity and immunity in terms of cultural and biological resistance. After examining the linkage between translation and coronavirus disease from three different yet interlinked perspectives—cultural, medical, and biocultural—we make a case for a translational medical humanities framework for tackling the multifactorial crisis brought about by the SARS-CoV-2 infection. This innovative entanglement of perspectives has the merit of carving out a new space for translation research at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities, providing sustainable ways to conceptualize the production of science at times of crisis, and challenging conventional views of translation as a primarily linguistic and cultural phenomenon that traditionally does not engage with science.

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• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Intraducibile. Besa Muci. ISBN ‎ 8836292542. 192 s. Vis sammendrag

  Intraducibile è una parola-corpo che trascrive nelle sue asperità sonore e nella sua liquidità sdrucciola la complessità di un equilibrio costantemente ricercato tra ruvidità e leggerezza. Per questo motivo è un termine perfetto a introdurre una poesia che appare profondamente radicata nella fluidità assoluta del contemporaneo, eppure capace di schiudersi verso una visione solida, retrospettiva e ampia della storia. Il verso di Arnaldi – che lavora a partire da una biografia e storia di migrazione, aspetto che emerge con forza nei versi che si mantengono tuttavia sempre al riparo da una dimensione puramente confessionale – affonda così le radici nella grazia discreta della tradizione ligure. MARTA ARNALDI (Sanremo, 1985) è Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow e Lecturer in Italian Studies presso l’Università di Oxford. Scrive sia in italiano sia in inglese. Poesie, racconti, saggistica creativa e pezzi per il teatro sono apparsi su riviste letterarie, antologie e sotto forma di sillogi. La sua prima raccolta poetica, Itaca (2016), ha vinto due premi letterari internazionali, incluso il “Premio Letterario Opera Prima Elena Violani Landi”, insignito dal Centro di Poesia Contemporanea dell’Università di Bologna. Mare storto (2022), seconda silloge poetica, è risultata finalista al concorso letterario internazionale Jacques Prévert 2021.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Mare storto. Montedit . ISBN 9791259510907. 41 s. Vis sammendrag

  L’acqua comunica, purifica, lima, scioglie, muta e cura: come la parola; e, come la parola, è di questo mondo e d’altri. Ecco perché il mare, dimensione terrestre e altra, parla lingue sconosciute e a volte incomprensibili. Mare storto è un libro in cinque atti scritto in ascolto e sulla scorta di queste straniere parole. Del mare ripercorre onde sintattiche, ritirate, rotte e scioglimenti. “Plancton” è il mare ritrovato: ricongiungimento di radici trasformate. “Il mare è un sentimento” quando si incontra l’estraneità dell’amore: passione e fuga. “Etimologia del blu”: perché non c’è differenza tra il mare e l’origine. “Residuo fisso” è il sedimento di paesi e città: gravità della storia contro la leggerezza dei corpi.“Mare storto”: il mare, pagina increspata, è errore di prospettiva, sentimento sbagliato, difetto della vista; non ha ombra e non ha fine; mare è album fotografico, diario minimo, lettera mai spedita, tavolozza impregnata, incubatrice della parola prima, fragile e amniotica, imperfetta e indistinta, che ci ha salvati. Siamo nati sulla terra, ma veniamo dal mare. Marta Arnaldi

• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Alibi: Prima antologia bilingue di poesia italiana nel Regno Unito, ed. by Marta Arnaldi and Luca Paci (Rome: Ensemble). Ensemble. ISBN 886881742X. 330 s. Vis sammendrag

  Alibi – dal latino alĭbi, ‘altrove’ – è la prima antologia che raccoglie le voci – dislocate, trasferite, trasportate – di poeti italiani viventi, o precedentemente vissuti, nel Regno Unito. In maniera programmatica ma lirica, in forma di elegia e al di là della denuncia, esce all’indomani della Brexit e per invito del poeta albanese italofono Gëzim Hajdari. È un progetto transculturale e bilingue che raccoglie poeti e traduttori di età, città, professioni e stili diversi: c’è chi studia logica matematica e chi lavora la ceramica; chi pratica la terzina dantesca e chi abbraccia l’haiku; chi scrive per dipingere e chi non usa le parole; chi traduce dalla lingua dell’inconscio e del mito; chi compone in inglese, chi si autotraduce e chi usa più lingue, trasgredendo i principi della biunivocità e del binarismo. Così nel libro troverete il fantasma poliglotta dei più grandi poeti della tradizione (e traduzione) italiana, da Dante ad Ariosto e da Petrarca a Leopardi; vi unirete a un’intima (ultima?) danza di amiche e amici, eppure soffrirete l’esilio; rifarete esperienza dello spazio di un grembo e visiterete il vuoto di una tomba; capirete che la distanza è poesia prematura e allo stesso tempo vecchissima. L’italiano antologizzato, a volte nato tradotto e altre volte nato straniero, è lingua della maternità, delle metamorfosi, del postcolonialismo, dell’alterità animale e cosmica, della nostalgia per altri mondi, migrazioni e partenze. È lingua della traduzione, eterna e appena pronunciata, creata per il luogo di nascita e per tutte le altre destinazioni. È la lingua viva e vera, incodificata e decodificata, dei nostri ritorni.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). The Diasporic Canon: American Anthologies of Contemporary Italian Poetry 1945-2015. Legenda. ISBN 978-1-781886-74-8. 302 s. Vis sammendrag

  The Diasporic Canon is the first monograph to be dedicated to the history of a national literary canon in another language and country. By exploring Italian poetry’s potential for mobility and transformation, it traces its reception in the U.S. and translation into English as an expression of the culture of Italian migration to North America. The result is the evolution, from the 1940s up to the present, of a radically different canon from the domestic one, i.e. a canon that has been built upon historical anticipations of later developments in Italy, transcontinental influences, but also inversions, distortions, and even errors. In a rigorous yet ground-breaking survey that analyses almost one-hundred anthologies, Marta Arnaldi argues that the theoretical concept of diaspora presents us with a new idea of canonicity, one that puts forward a renewed image of literature in translation and of its significance, whilst also problematising received ideas of nationality, ethnicity, gender, genre, and authorship.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2016). Itaca . Montedit. ISBN 8865876506. 32 s.

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• Arnaldi, Marta (2024). 'Giacomo Leopardi in the Anthropocene: Translating the Non-Human from Animals to AI'.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Read and commented on Cristian Miguel Torres Gutierrez's doctoral thesis.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). 'Translation and Medical Humanities: Book Concept'.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). '"The New Order of Things": Leopardi and AI'.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). 'Il canone fantasma e lo spettro della traduzione: antologizzare la poesia italiana negli Stati Uniti' .
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). 'The Art of Falling: Depression and Desire in Leopardi, Pascoli, and Montale'.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Bodies in Translation workshop at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Univesity of Oxford. Vis sammendrag

  CFP: ‘Bodies in Translation’ PhDs and ECRs Workshop University of Oxford 5-6 September 2023 CFP: ‘Bodies in Translation’: A Workshop at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Translation and Medical Humanities conference, 5-6 September 2023, University of Oxford. Time and place: 5 September 2023, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. This workshop, open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at the Universities of Oslo and Oxford, is part of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference, an interdisciplinary event co-organised by Dr Marta Arnaldi and Prof John Ødemark, leader of the Bodies in Translation research project, in collaboration with Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation. Facilitated by Dr Marenka Thompson Odlum (Oxford) and Dr Marta Arnaldi (Oslo and Oxford), the workshop is aimed at doctoral and early-career researchers working in cultural studies, translation studies, environmental humanities, health and medical humanities, the history and philosophy of knowledge, and ideas of politics, decolonisation, embodiment, affect, and cognition.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Critical-Creative Exchange, University of Oslo and University of Oxford. Content of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation webpage.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translation and Medical Humanities conference webpage, University of Oslo.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translational Ruptures.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translation-scape, as part of Eloquent Things, teaching with museum objects, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translation and Medical Humanities.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translating the Asylum: Alda Merini and the Making of Lyrical Psychiatry.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translation and Medical Humanities: Critical-Creative Exchange with the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation research group, University of Oxford, organised and led by Marta Arnaldi.
• Arnaldi, Marta & Ødemark, John (2023). Translation and Medical Humanities – international conference organised by Marta Arnaldi and John Ødemark, University of Oxford, 5-6 September 2023. Vis sammendrag

  A conference to explore the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; to invoke the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and to reappraise the impact of biomedicine in our linguistic, cultural, and societal ecosystems.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translational Medical Humanities.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translational Futures, part of The Languages of COVID-19 Roundtable.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). ‘Translating Illness’ in research, policy and the clinic: A clarion call from the humanities. Vis sammendrag

  In this talk, I will share the story of the original, risk-taking and, at times, mysterious journey that led me to the creation of ‘Translating Illness’. I will explain the nature of this medical humanities project, which was born from, and continues to explore, a capacious and multilayered idea of translation, one that originates in the humanities. I will outline how this idea or theory of translation applies to different clinical scenarios, namely psychiatry and epidemiology. Finally, I will suggest how this theoretical framework can help us inform policy making locally and globally, touching upon questions of health, sustainability, disability, diverse ability, and disease.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Translating Illness: Research and Policy Perspectives.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2023). Medical Humanities in the Italosphere. The Polyphony. Vis sammendrag

  Marta Arnaldi considers the development of medical humanities in the Italosphere, reflecting on its deep roots and radical visions of the future.

• Arnaldi, Marta & Forsdick, Charles (2023). Medical Humanities' Translational Core: Remodelling the Field. The Polyphony. Vis sammendrag

  Ahead of the international Translation and Medical Humanities conference at the University of Oxford, Marta Arnaldi and Charles Forsdick launch the conference takeover by imagining medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Trans/lating Alibi. Translating Illness website. Vis sammendrag

  On the mysterious, translatorly relationship between poetry and healing. A Spanish anthology edited in/at Seville by Dalila Colucci and Leonarda Trapassi, with the collaboration of Trinidad Durán, Carmela Simmarano (PhD candidate in Italian Studies), and the students of the Máster Universitario en Traducción e Interculturalidad, University of Seville.

• Arnaldi, Marta; Boeri, Gloria & Sforza Tarabochia, Alvise (2022). ‘The Best Liar Among Us’: On Photography and Psychiatry. Interview with Alvise Sforza Tarabochia written and conducted by Gloria Boeri. The interview is based upon and inspired by Marta Arnaldi's interview with Alvise, 'Translating Psychiatry', 15 October 2022, which is part of Marta's video podcast series Translating Illness. . Translating Illness website.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Narrativity and the Crisis of Evidence. Mona Baker and Eivind Engebretsen interviewed by Marta Arnaldi. This video interview is part of Marta's Translating Illness video podcast series. . Vis sammendrag

  In this Translating Illness video podcast, Marta Arnaldi discusses with authors Mona Baker and Eivind Engebretsen their new publication, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2022). The book moves from, and goes beyond, the scenario of the COVID-19 crisis to ask in what ways the pandemic transformed the ‘specialized issue of what constitutes reliable medical evidence into a topic of public concern’. Are scientists interpreters? What is the boundary between facts and fiction? Does it make sense to distinguish between the so-called objectivity of science and the subjectivity of the humanities? If these divides, as Baker and Engebretsen put it, have become unsustainable, how do the futures of research and policy look like as we step into a new era in the history of science and thought? With special thanks to the University of Oxford’s Educational Media Services, where this episode was filmed.

• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). A Tapestry of Homes, poetry reading, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). The Diasporic Canon.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). Translational Ecologies in Anna Maria Ortese.
• Arnaldi, Marta (2022). ‘The Foreign Connection’: On Illness, Poetry and Other Tongues .

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