PhD in MODERN FOREIGN LITERATURES, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURES

Alessandro Amenta is an Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at the Department of History, Humanities and Society of the university of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Polish language and translation. His main research interests include:



Literary Onomastics

Translation and Retranslation

Translation and Fantastic Literature

Reception of Polish Literature in Italy

Post-89 and Interwar Polish Literature

Gender and queer studies in Central and Eastern Europe



He translated into Italian the works of many Polish writers, such as Witold Gombrowicz, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Wiesław Myśliwski, Adam Zagajewski, Andrzej Stasiuk, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Antoni Libera, Izabela Filipiak, Łukasz Jarosz, Piotr Paziński and others.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the class A journal “pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi” and a member of many international editorial and scientific committees.

He has been the co-founder and a member of the board of the Italian Association of Polish Studies (AIP), and a member of the main sector associations (Międzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie Studiów Polonistycznych, Associazione Italiana Slavisti, Associazione Onomastica e Letteratura).

He was awarded the decoration “Zasłużony dla kultury polskiej” (Meritorious for Polish Culture) by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

He is the author of the monographs Il discorso dell’Altro. La costruzione delle identità omosessuali nella narrativa polacca del Novecento (2008) e Le parole e il silenzio. La poesia di Zuzanna Ginczanka e Krystyna Krahelska (2016). Among his edited books: Dezorientacje. Antolologia polskiej literatury queer (with Tomasz Kaliściak and Błażej Warkocki, 2021), Boginie, bohaterki, syreny, pajęczyce. Polskie pisarki współczesne wobec mitów (with Krystyna Jaworska, 2020), Inattese vertigini. Antologia della poesia polacca 1989-2010 (with Lorenzo Costantino, 2010), Omosessualità e Europa. Culture, istituzioni, società a confronto (with Laura Quercioli Mincer, 2006).