My review of Francis Bacon: Man and Beast for Artribune at the Royal Academy

Rare Book Collection fellow Caterina Domeneghini Caterina (Cat) Domeneghini from University of Oxford Dept. of English is researching for “Classics in English, English Classics: Reading J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library from Greco-Roman Antiquity to Nationalism and World Literature”

'Here Classics meets anthropology, and the result is a cautionary tale far from the disciplinary romance that Herodotus once envisioned with his own ethnographic enquiry.' (Caterina (Cat) Domeneghini) the-tls.co.uk/articles/human…

"...when we are losing a language, we are also losing a certain perception of the world." In light of Sergey Katran's latest exhibition, "Until the Word is Gone," Caterina (Cat) Domeneghini speaks to the artist about language and the war in his native country, Ukraine: bit.ly/3MrwNsV

Thank you @SharpAmsterdam, Prof. Kuitert and my fellow speakers for a wonderful kick-off. Thrilled to have presented on books as textual universes in Everyman's Library, "Rewriting and reprinting for social change" panel. Loads of food for thought!

"If narrative stands as the dominant mode of representing and interpreting reality, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two." Caterina (Cat) Domeneghini reviews Peter Brooks’s “Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-we…

It’s HERE! On the heels of Roe being overturned, our FALL ISSUE centers women's voices and their lived experiences; Kyung-Sook Shin, Montserrat Roig, and Emma Ramadan are in the house! Discover new work from 32 countries—including a spotlight on #Armenia: asymptotejournal.com/oct-2022

Ukraine-born artist Sergey Katran struggled with art-making in the face of war. But deciding he would not be silenced, he conceived an entire exhibition—featured in our slideshow (along with Dostoevskyesque mushrooms!). An interview with the man himself: tinyurl.com/2p8f2353

“Translation . . . is a democratic furnace of hope.” Caterina (Cat) Domeneghini reviews a new collection of essays by trilingual writer Jhumpa Lahiri, unpicking the many strands of a life lived between three languages. tinyurl.com/5fmrkps9

Two new posts in the Realigning Reception takeover are now up in a Christmas Double Bill! Claire Barnes and Caterina Domeneghini offer two unique perspectives on the subject of 'Classics and the Mass Market'...

Caterina's post, entitled 'Cheap Books for Everyman', examines cheap ‘classic’ books and their ever-changing defining attributes within the frame of a well-established cultural and educational phenomenon in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. classicalreception.org/classics-and-t…

Research spotlights🔎 With projects ranging from racial surveillance to Japanese experimental film, a selection of #WolfsonScholars share their research with the wider group and reflect on their postgraduate experience.

Our special issue for New American Studies Journal is out and is open access! nasjournal.org/NASJ/issue/vie…. Featuring Xander Manshel on historical fiction, Edwin Frank on NYRB Classics, Susan Hegeman on classics and culture wars, Rochelle Gurstein on ephemeral masterpieces, & more!

I've got a new piece out on Dino Buzzati and his haunted middle classes - huge thanks to Bécquer Seguín and Public Books for the brilliant editorial work!

In a new review, Caterina Domeneghini (Caterina (Cat) Domeneghini) studies a surge in translation to English of the work of Dino Buzzati. “This new translation project doesn’t just revive Buzzati,” she argues, “it reframes him.” buff.ly/KsR42pK