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Nicoletta Asciuto is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature since 2016. A Comparative Modernist scholar and polyglot fluent in ten languages, she bridges modernist studies, technological history, and literary translation in her research and teaching.
- Co-Investigator for Marie Skłodowska Curie Action EUTERPE (2022-2026)
- Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh (2015-16)
- Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (2014)
Her research focuses on the intersection of modernist poetics and technological shifts, particularly the gaslight-to-electric light transition, and the translational practices within modernist periodicals. She has co-edited interdisciplinary special issues for Space & Culture and Modernism/modernity Print Plus, and her upcoming monograph Brilliant Modernism (2025) pioneers the analysis of light cultures in avant-garde poetics.
Recent publications highlight her expertise in transnational modernism and translation, including a forthcoming Italian translation of Hope Mirrlees’ Paris. A Poem. Her external activities span guest lectures at Masaryk University, workshops at University of Toronto, and editorial roles at the Fortnightly Review.
- Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award (2020-21)
- British Academy Small Grant (2019-20)
- UK-China Seed Funding Grant (2020)
She supervises five doctoral theses on topics including multilingual modernist couples, Eliot’s animal studies, and transmediterranean literature, while integrating local museums and publishing houses into her pedagogy. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, her teaching innovations reflect her commitment to academic practice.
