Staff profile

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, where I develop a project on the international transmission of mountaineering literature, titled TransAlpine.

I am a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century literature, translation, gender and environmental studies, with a specific focus on collaborative practices. I work on and in archives, adopting a range of methodologies (genetic translation studies and/or agent-oriented approaches in translation history and translator studies).

Before moving to Durham, I was Stipendiary Lecturer and Director of Studies in Italian at St Hilda's College, Oxford. I obtained my DPhil in 2024, and my thesis won IULM University’s 2024 dissertation award. This work forms the backbone of my first monograph, on Italian writers and their collaboration with English-language translators (under advanced review with OUP). 

I have been invited to present my research at a wide range of international conferences and seminars (Sorbonne Université, University of Reading, ILCS London), and to deliver the opening lecture for the Environmental Humanities Research Cluster, University of Glasgow. My work has been supported by, among others, a Ragusa Foundation Fellowship (New York), an Everett Helm Fellowship (Lilly Library, Indiana), and a BA/Leverhulme Small Grant (University of Reading).

While at Oxford, I led the centenary commemoration of the 1924 British Everest expedition at Merton College. For that occasion, I organised a day-long symposium, inviting speakers (both climbers and academics) from the UK and overseas, and curated a special exhibition, Sandy Irvine: Everest 1924-2024, at Merton’s Old Library (and online).

My creative writing on mountains has appeared in Alpinist (issues 86, ‘A Longer Rope’, and 93, ‘The Mountain as Partner’) and is forthcoming in Desire Lines.

Chapter in book

• Rewriting Irvine into Everest: Audrey Salkeld and Julie Summers
  
  Saroldi, A. (2024). Rewriting Irvine into Everest: Audrey Salkeld and Julie Summers. In P. Gilchrist, P. H. Hansen, & J. Westaway (Eds.), Other Everests: One mountain, many worlds (pp. 147-162). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526179173.00014
• Memoria e prolungamento: aspetti di pratica e teoria dell’autotraduzione in Jacqueline Risset
  
  Saroldi, A. (2021). Memoria e prolungamento: aspetti di pratica e teoria dell’autotraduzione in Jacqueline Risset. In J. Galavotti, S. Giovine, & G. Morbiato (Eds.), I gesti del mestiere: Traduzione e autotraduzione tra Italia e Francia dal XIX al XXI secolo.

Journal Article

• How to translate on stage: The role of Franca Rame in translation history
  
  Saroldi, A. (2026). How to translate on stage: The role of Franca Rame in translation history. Encounters in Translation, 5. https://doi.org/10.35562/encounters-in-translation.1637
• Translation and the Shape of Emotions: Redefining Maggie Nelson’s Argo in the Italian Context
  
  Tibaldo, V., & Saroldi, A. (2025). Translation and the Shape of Emotions: Redefining Maggie Nelson’s Argo in the Italian Context. Italian Culture, 43(2), 208-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2025.2592477
• Catholic Queer Theology in Translation, from Teresa Forcades i Vila to Michela Murgia
  
  Saroldi, A. (2024). Catholic Queer Theology in Translation, from Teresa Forcades i Vila to Michela Murgia. The Italianist, 44(2), 350-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2024.2435229
• Translation and mountaineering, a first case study: Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith between collaborative translation and cordée féminine
  
  Saroldi, A. (2023). Translation and mountaineering, a first case study: Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith between collaborative translation and cordée féminine. Translation in Society, 2(2), 235-252. https://doi.org/10.1075/tris.22016.sar
• Il Sereni perduto: Rileggere “Up at La Serra” di Charles Tomlinson a partire da una traduzione inedita di Vittorio Sereni
  
  Saroldi, A. (2023). Il Sereni perduto: Rileggere “Up at La Serra” di Charles Tomlinson a partire da una traduzione inedita di Vittorio Sereni. Ticontre, 18. https://doi.org/10.15168/ticontre.vi18.2261
• Autotraduction : dialogue ou monologue ? Croisements temporels et linguistiques chez Jacqueline Risset et Peter Robinson
  
  Saroldi, A. (2022). Autotraduction : dialogue ou monologue ? Croisements temporels et linguistiques chez Jacqueline Risset et Peter Robinson. Nouveaux Cahiers de Marge, 6. https://doi.org/10.35562/marge.547