Comparative literature / Translation Studies
Jacob Deutsch Blakesley is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza’s Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, where he specializes in comparative literature, translation studies, and Italian literature. He has published two monographs: A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: modern European poet-translators (Routledge, 2018) and Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible (Toronto, 2014). His monograph on the global translation history of Dante’s Commedia is contracted with Cambridge University Press. He has furthermore edited Sociologies of Poetry Translation: Emerging Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2018), and co-edited Dante’s Comedy in English Translation (Routledge, forthcoming) and The Afterlife of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone World (Routledge, 2022). He has also co-edited a number of special journal issues dealing with translation and literary studies. He co-directs two book series, Routledge Studies in Literary Translation and Peter Lang Leeds Studies on Dante, and is one of the general editors of Comparative Critical Studies.