Who are we?: Talking Transformations: Home on the Move. A project of translation, poetry and art.

Dr Manuela Perteghella (OU) and Dr Ricarda Vidal (King’s College - London), are exploring what ‘home’ may mean in the era of migration and they also connect ideas of ‘home’ and language. Dr Manuela Perteghella . Dr Manuela Perteghella is an academic with specialist interests in the fields of literary translation, multimodal poetics, and contemporary artistic practice. She is also a producer and curator of participatory arts projects. She has published research in the field of literary and theatre translation. Her books include (with E. Loffredo) Translation and  Creativity (2006), One Poem in Search of a Translator (2009), with C. Marinetti & R. Baines Staging and Performing Translation (2011), and more recently with R. Vidal, she curated and edited the multilingual poetry anthology Home on the Move: two poems go on a journey (Parthian 2019).  With Vidal she is also the curator of the project ‘TalkingTransformations’ http://www.talkingtransformations.eu/. She has taught translation at universities in the UK, and more recently at the Open University, and has worked for theatre companies in the past. Manuela is also the curator of ‘TransARTation! Wandering Texts, Travelling Objects’ http://transartation.co.uk/, a touring and virtual exhibition of inter-art translation
First published on Mon, 29 Jul 2019 as Who are we?: Talking Transformations: Home on the Move. A project of translation, poetry and art.. To find out more visit The Open University's Openlearn website. Creative-Commons 2019