Antonio Viselli

Dr. Antonio Viselli serves as Senior Lecturer Above Bar in the Global, Cultural and Language Studies department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha). His academic work spans Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and European languages with particular expertise in French, English, Italian, and Spanish literary traditions from the 19th to 21st centuries.

Viselli's research focuses on interdisciplinary entanglements within poetry and prose, especially the relationship between musical form and text, intermediality, modernist subjectivity, hospitality theory, and iconoclasm. His work extends to Francophone literature and art across Canada and the Pacific, with significant contributions to Translation Studies and indigenous pedagogies. His recent publications demonstrate a consistent engagement with kyriarchal systems, abjection theory, and translingual practices.

His scholarly output reveals strong thematic continuity across literary periods and geographical contexts, with particular emphasis on the works of Tristan Corbière, Baudelaire, Joyce, Proust, and contemporary Pacific and Maghrebi writers. The publications show sophisticated integration of postcolonial theory, ecopoetics, and transnational perspectives, often examining power structures through literary form.

• Outstanding Service Award (LSAP 2020)

Viselli actively supervises graduate research, currently mentoring students including Julia Tan (The Stranger's Right to be Inhospitable), Di-kai Chao (Sinophone Ghost Narratives Under the Lyrical Discourse), and Mengjun Yu (The Construction of a Modern Myth in Haizi's Sun). His current research is supported by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment grant 'In the Lay-reader's Eyes - Reassurance of Translation Quality' (2022-2023), which investigates community translation quality assessment and contributes to New Zealand's interpreter certification system development.