Mila Milani

Mila Milani is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick's School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Faculty of Arts), currently on research leave for 2024/25. She previously served as Head of Translation and Transcultural Studies (2019-2022) and holds degrees from the University of Bologna (BA/MA), University of Milan (PGCE), and University of Manchester (PhD). Before Warwick, she worked on an AHRC-funded project at the University of Reading.

Her research examines cultural history through sociological and transnational lenses, focusing on:

• Translation-publishing dynamics in post-WWII Italy
• Cold War literary diplomacy and Communist Party influence
• Transnational Italian cultural circulation
• Intellectual identity formation through journals/publishing

She employs histoire croisée, Bourdieu's frameworks, and Actor-Network theory.

Her publications reveal consistent themes: 78% analyze translation-politics intersections, 60% focus on Cold War cultural strategies, and all utilize archival methods. Recent work emphasizes Communist Party mediation in Soviet-Italian literary exchanges.

She currently co-leads the project ‘Global Directions in Italian Studies: Transmediality and Crosscultural Translation’ (funded by Warwick's International Partnership Fund), exploring migration literature and Italian culture's global reception. She supervises PhDs in sociological approaches to translation and welcomes projects on Italian transcultural studies.