Claudia Alborghetti

(Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)

Claudia Alborghetti is an Adjunct Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore for the courses of History of Reading and Children’s Literature, and Translation Theory and Practice. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistic Sciences in 2016, with a thesis on Gianni Rodari’s writings in English translation from 1965 to 2011. Her first published article was precisely on Rodari and his food language: Gianni Rodari’s Grammar of Food: translating Italian food language into English in children’s literature in the UK and the US (2018). Her research interest lies in translation, rewriting migrant identities, and young girls in translation.