Giancarlo Tursi

Giancarlo Tursi is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of French and Italian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also serves as co-director of the Translation Studies program. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University and an MA in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne, Paris. His doctoral dissertation, Dialectal Dante: The Politics of Translation in Risorgimento Italy, examines dialectal translations of Dante’s works during Italy's 19th-century unification. Currently, he is a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where he is developing his dissertation into a book.

Tursi’s research interests span translation studies, language politics, and the role of minoritized languages. He is fluent in English, Italian, and French, with advanced proficiency in Spanish, and also speaks the local dialect of his hometown, Martina Franca in Puglia. Recently, he has begun learning Kaqchikel, an indigenous Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. His scholarly work has been published in journals such as La Fusta, King's Review, and Società Editrice Fiorentina. Additionally, he is co-editing a forthcoming special issue on sound and translation for the journal Sound Studies.

https://www.frit.ucsb.edu/giancarlo-tursi