Dr Elena Borelli joined King’s College London in 2017. She completed her Classics MA at Bologna University (2002) and her Second Language Acquisition MA from the University of Venice (2005). She completed her Ph.D. in Italian and French Literature at Rutgers University (2012). Dr Elena Borelli is a Higher Education Fellow. She is now Deputy Team Leader for Italian and Linguistics. She looks after the Italian provision, in particular assessment, quality assurance, and teacher training. 

Research, Scholarly projects and Academic Awards

Her research focuses on the history and practice of translation, as well as on nineteenth-century Italian Literature. She is currently working on the first complete translation of Giovanni Pascoli's Canti di Castelvecchio. She is also interested in ecocriticism in the fin de siècle, and she is currently writing a book chapter on narratives of the end of the world. Lastly, she is co-writing a textbook of Italian as a foreign language.

Academic Publications:

Borelli, E. (2024) “Tra l’Universale e il Particolare: le traduzioni inglesi dei Canti di Castelevecchio” in Rivista Pascoliana no. 35, pp. 167-180.

Borelli, E., Farabegoli, G. (2022) “Pettirossi pascoliani per Puccini: la corrispondenza tra Pascoli e Puccini (1897-1904) e Madama Butterfly” in Rivista Pascoliana no. 34, pp. 59-74

Borelli, E. (2020) “Traduzione o tradizione? Il dibattito sulla letteratura ne Il Marzocco” in Bouchard N., Ferme, V.(eds), Annali di Italianistica. Nation(s) & Translations 38, pp.177-192.

Borelli, E. (2017) Action or Contemplation? The Ethics of Desire in Fin -de-Siècle Italy, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Borelli, E. (ed.) (2014) The Fire Within: Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.