Emanuela Maltese (E518-8912-3ABD)

Curriculum Vitae

Emanuela Maltese

Emanuela Maltese is a translator, curator, writer, and independent researcher. She holds two Ph.D.: one in “Anglophone Literatures and Cultures¿ (2024, Charles University, Prague, Czechia); and one in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World” (2011, University of Naples l'“Orientale,¿ Italy). Her interests include anglophone postcolonial studies and literature, the Black radical tradition, postcolonial translation, transnational feminism, gender studies, and African-American and Afro-Caribbean literatures and cultures. She has written peer-reviewed articles on Haitian-American diasporic encounters, feminine spirituality, James Baldwin (as a winner graduate’s contribution to the James Baldwin Review, 2023), and resistance and anti-racism approaches through literature, video performance, and art. She has co-translated and curated the Italian translation (2021) of Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, The Wall Between Us (2022) and translated and edited many texts on anticolonial and feminist resistance, in addition to some poems (i.e., a selection of poems by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah).

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Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Emanuela Maltese

Nomes de citação

Maltese, Emanuela

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: E518-8912-3ABD
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8242-3618

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuelamaltese/ (Profissional)
https://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/staff/phd-students/emanuela-maltese/ (Académico)
https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/18855/emanuela-maltese (Académico)
https://www.kistories.it/ki-siamo/ (Profissional)

Domínios de atuação

Humanidades - Línguas e Literaturas

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Italiano (Idioma materno)
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)
Português	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)
Francês	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador elementar (A2)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2019/10/01 - 2024/09/13 Concluído	Anglophone Culture and Literature (Doktor (PhD)) Especialização em American Studies Univerzita Karlova, República Checa "Blackness Next Time: James Baldwin's Prophecies of Beauty and Love" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Ph.D.
2020/08/15 - 2020/08/18 Concluído	The Damned: Seminar with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (Postgraduate Certificate) The European Graduate School, Suiça	A
2007/10/31 - 2011/04/15 Concluído	Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World (Doctor of Philosophy) Especialização em Anglophone Studies Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Itália "Dillo a New York: Possessioni Vodou tra Cura femminista e Convivialita' Postcoloniale Tell New York: Vodou Possessions Between Feminist Healing and Postcolonial Conviviality" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Ph.D.
2006/02/28 - 2008/10/01 Concluído	Languages and Cultures of the Anglophone World (Laurea Specialistica) Especialização em Anglophone Studies Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Itália "If Moses was Egyptian: Freud, Said and "The Fourth Humiliation" Se Mose' era Egizio: Freud, Said e la Quarta Umiliazione Result: 110 cum laude " (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Laurea Specialistica
2002/09/02 - 2006/02/26 Concluído	Lingue Letterature e Culture di Europa e America- Euro-American Language and Literatures (Bachelor) Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Itália "Result: 110 cum laude " (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Laurea Triennale
1997/09/19 - 2002/07/06 Concluído	Linguistic Studies French English and Spanish (Licence) Istituto Tommaso Campanella Liceo Linguistico, Itália

Percurso profissional

Outros

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2024/09/01 - Atual	Translator IT/EN	KI STORIES SRL, Itália

2025/09/22 - 2026/08/31	Docente Grupo 330 Inglês	Agrupamento de Escolas de Santo Antonio de Charneca, Portugal

2025/03/14 - 2025/08/31	Docente Grupo 330 Inglês	ES Sebastião da Gama- Escola 2º-3º ciclos ARANGUEZ, Portugal

2024/10/01 - 2025/08/31	English Teacher	TOP STUDENT UNIPESSOAL LDA, Portugal
	TOP STUDENT UNIPESSOAL LDA, Portugal
2020/02/01 - 2024/12/31	Translator Editor Writer	Archive Books, Alemanha

2024/04/01 - 2024/08/04	English Teacher	StepUp Language Center, Portugal

2019/02/01 - 2020/08/15	Translator and Content Manager	Rendl Light Studio, República Checa

2012/11/13 - 2018/12/20	Event Manager/Director of Business Development	Europe Congress, República Checa

2012/09/04 - 2012/11/03	Receptionist	Backstage Catering and Events , Suiça

2012/07/01 - 2012/08/16	English Teacher	Private English Lessons Club, República Checa

2011/11/12 - 2012/06/30	Comenius Assistant	Zakladni Skola Kolin, República Checa

2011/05/26 - 2011/10/30	Translator	CFA Center of Assisted Fecundation, Itália

2011/04/01 - 2011/05/15	English Teacher	Wall Street Institute Naples, Itália

2011/01/13 - 2011/03/04	Customer Care Agent	Teleperformance Hellas, Grécia

2010/10/01 - 2010/12/10	English Teacher	Wall Street Institute Naples, Itália

2003/07/10 - 2010/11/11	Private English and Spanish Teacher	Self-Employed , Itália

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2021/06/01 - 2022/02/28	ELAN Interuniversity Exchange CZPRAHA07 Bolseiro de Investigação Univerzita Karlova, República Checa Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg Concluído
2011/11/14 - 2012/05/31	LLPP/COMENIUS ASSISTANSHIP INDIRE PROGRAM 2011-1-IT2-COM04-24262 Language Assistant Základní škola Mnichova, República Checa	Concluído
2007/01/01 - 2007/06/01	SOCRATES-ERASMUS UK2006 Bolseiro de Mestrado University of Warwick, Reino Unido	Concluído

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2009/01/01 - 2009/04/25	“A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics” (NEST – 043415) Pathfinder Initiative: 2005/2006 043415 Investigador Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Itália Università di Bologna, Itália Goldsmiths University of London, Reino Unido	Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg Concluído

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Maltese, E.. "“Love Is the Key”: James Baldwin's Poethics of Love". James Baldwin Review 9 1 (2023): 89-107. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85174013862&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.7227/JBR.9.5 Maltese, Emanuela; Piccirillo, Annalisa; Carotenuto, Silvana. "“Uno ‘script’ di amicizia”". Leggendaria no. 150 (ottobre-novembre 2021) 1 150 (2021): 12-13. https://leggendaria.it/prodotto/leggendaria-150/. Publicado Maltese, Emanuela. "“‘What is the Truth?’: Ezili, or the Power of Feminist Love”". Journal of Haitian Studies (2010): Publicado Maltese, Emanuela. "“U.S./Haiti through the Looking Glass”". Il Tolomeo. Articoli, recensioni e inediti delle Nuove Letterature 13 (2010): 36-38. https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/detail/o:458890. Acesso aberto • Publicado
Capítulo de livro	Maltese, Emanuela. "Fugitively Crossing the Ocean: James Baldwin’s Love and Consent to Be in Trans/Trance". In Transmigrations: Cartographies of the Queer, editado por Vit Bohal, 109-122. Praga, República Checa: Litteraria Pragensia Books: Prague, 2020, 2021. Publicado Maltese, Emanuela. "What Will Be of All That Beauty. Baldwin, Translation and Black Beauty". In Risonanze III. La memoria dei testi dal medioevo a oggi. Edited by Carmela Giordano, editado por GIORDANO, CARMELA, 121-134. Napoli, Itália: Liguori, 2020. Maltese, Emanuela. "“Dalla morte d’oggi alla cura politica del sé: archivi, monumenti e frammenti”". In Ritorni Critici. La sfida degli studi culturali e postcoloniali. Edited by Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, Michaela Quadraro*, editado por QUADRARO, MICHAELA; CHAMBERS, IAIN, 159-167. Milano, Itália: Meltemi, 2017.
Catálogo de exposição	Scotini, Marco; Altay, Can. Disobedience Archive (Ders Bitti). 17th Istanbul Biennale and Archive Books Berlin, 2022. Altaf, Navjot. Navjot Altaf’s Exhibition: Samakaalik: Earth Democracy and Women’s Liberation (Democrazia della Terra e Femminismo). PAV (Torino) Berlin: Archive Books, 2021., 2021.
Edição de livro	Maltese, Emanuela; Figone, Chiara; Bisschoff, Lizelle ; Grgic´, Ana; Peer, Stefanie Van de, ed. Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage. Berlin, Alemanha: Archive Books. 2025. Publicado • Editor Maltese, Emanuela; Maitland, Padma Dorje; Hang, Chenxing. Autor correspondente: Maltese, Emanuela, ed(s). Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times. Berlin, Alemanha: Archive Books. 2024. Publicado
Recurso online	Maltese, Emanuela. “About commons and undercommons” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy. 2022. https://verso.fsrr.org/glossario-commons/.
Tradução	Fausto Romano. Liberto. The Child Who Was Allergic to Advertising. Galatina (LE), Itália: KI Stories Production Publisher. 2025. Publicado MOSCARDINI MARGHERITA. Autor correspondente: MOSCARDINI MARGHERITA. Metropolitan Voids Agency. Berlin, Alemanha: Archive Books. 2024. Publicado FERRINI, ALESSANDRA. Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya. Itália: Archive Books. 2024. Publicado Emanuela Maltese; Gemma Maltese. The Wall Between Us: L’appartenere, il riparare e la sua politica degli affetti. Alemanha. 2022. Edited by Sandra Schäfer. Translated by Karl Hoffmann and Emanuela Maltese. Contended Landscape.. Berlin, Alemanha: Camera Austria-Archive Books. 2022. Publicado Kaisen Jin Jane. Autor correspondente: Kaisen Jin Jane. La sepoltura di questo ordine (Burial of This Order by Jane Jin Kaisen 2022). Video-performance, 25:30. Translated by Emanuela Maltese. Berlin: Archive Books, 2023. Berlin, Alemanha: Archive Books. 2022. Sandra Schäfer. Westerwald. Una fantasmagoria (Westerwald: A Visitation by Sandra Schäfer 2021). Film/Installation, 43:40. Translated by Emanuela Maltese. Berlin: Archive Books, 2022. Berlin, Alemanha: Archive Books. 2022. Publicado Maltese, Emanuela. Undercommons. Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Milan, Itália: Archive Books and Tamu Napoli. 2021. Publicado

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2026/05/14	“Witches Flying over the Sea, Whispering to the Wind, and Drawing Down the Moon. Spiritual Fabulations Across the Mediterranean.”	IUC Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, Croácia)
2025/11/10	“Lòt bò dlo: Vodou Resistance and Rasanblaj in the United States”	AISCLI Seminar African Cosmologies across the Atlantic: Literary, Linguistic, Artistic and Cultural Representations AISCLI University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti–Pescara, Italy (Pescara, Itália)
2025/04/11	“Black Aesthetics and ‘Terrible Beauty’: Baraka, BAM, and James Baldwin”	Open Lecture for the MA in American Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal FLUL, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/01/21	Introducing Denise Ferreira da Silva’s works and her experimental film “4 Waters: Deep Implicancy”	Course of Aesthetics: Choreopoetics NABA, University Institute of Fine Arts, Milan (Milano, Itália)
2023/02/23	Seminar: Introducing the Italian translation of The Undercommons: Black Study and Fugitive Planning by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten) with Archive Books, Tiziana Terranova (TRU), and Angelica Pesarini (NYU Firenze). Moderator: Justin Thompson	“Borderscapes” Centro di studi culturali e postcoloniali dell’Università di Napoli di L’Orientale, Italy (Center for Postcolonial Studies, Naples, University L’Orientale) (Napoli, Itália)
2022/10/05	“Blackness and Transness in James Baldwin’s Another Country”	PhD Annual Seminar Series Department of English and American Studies, Charles University Prague (Praga, República Checa)
2022/06/16	“Baldwin’s Po-Ethics of Love: A Dialogue and If Beale Street Could Talk,”	International James Baldwin Conference La Maison de Baldwin/Chez Baldwin (Nice/St. Paul de Vence, France, França)
2022/03/11	“Theories of Postcolonial Translation”	Publishing Practices, Archive Books Archive Books, Berlin, Germany (Berlin, Alemanha)
2021/10/05	“Afro-optimism: A Fugitive Contrapuntal Approach to African American Literature”	PhD Seminar Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Charles University Prague, Czech Republic (Praga, República Checa)
2021/05/27	“‘Who Are We Now?’ Transnational Feminist Crossings, Rasanblaj, and Rememberings”	14th Postgraduate Course Dubrovnik IUC Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, Croácia)
2021/04/12	Online Lecture: “(Re)membering and (Re)groundings”	(Re)membering and (Re)groundings, Archive Books Archive Books, Milan (Milano, Itália)
2020/04/20	“James Baldwin Love Ethic Between Utopia and Existential Humanism”	PhD Seminar Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Charles University Prague, Czech Republic (Praga, República Checa)
2020/01/20	“What will be of all that beauty, then? Traducendo la bellezza nera con James Baldwin¿ (“What Will Be of All That Beauty, Then? Translating Black Beauty with James Baldwin”)	“Risonanze III: La memoria dei testi dal Medioevo a oggi¿ (“Resonances III: Textual Memory Since the Middle Ages”) University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy (Napoli, Itália)
2011/04/04	“‘Haiti is Here. Haiti is Not Here’: Some Reflections on the Vodou Diaspora”	“Caribbean Unbound V – Vodou and Creolité” Franklyn College, Lugano, Switzerland (Lugano, Suiça)
2010/05/14	“Infectious Urban Rhythms: The Other Side of the Water (2009)”	Colloque International: Présences Vodou: Représentations et Constructions plurielles de l’objet Université de Laval, Québec, Canada (Quebec City, Canadá)
2009/04/04	“‘What is the Truth?’: Erzulie, the Power of Love and Feminism”	Haiti Unbound Franklyn College, Lugano, Switzerland (Lugano, Suiça)
2008/06/10	“Locations of (oc)culture: London Voodoo (2004)	New Boundary Crossings University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy (Napoli, Itália)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2023/06/24 - 2023/06/24	Organization and translation for the Milano new space opening and the exhibition: “Spiritual Fabulations: Anawana Haloba and Jane Jin Kaisen,” Archive Books, Milan, Italy (2023/06/22 - 2023/06/23) Exposição (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
2022/06/16 - 2022/06/18	06/16-18/2022 Part of the Organizing Committee (section: sponsorship and funds) for the International Conference on James Baldwin (2022/06/16 - 2022/06/18) Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	La Maison Baldwin, França
2021/06/18 - 2021/06/20	Organization and translation for the exhibition “Muna Mussie’s solo show ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ \| ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ \| Bologna St. 173. The August sun, high in the sky” beats down, Archive Books, Milan, Italy (2021/06/18 - 2021/06/20) Exposição (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	Archive Books, Alemanha

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2016/11/16 - 2016/11/18	The event gathers contributions that arise from the intention to renew the languages of critical analysis of texts and cultural practices in the contemporary era: a theoretical construction that aims to disseminate the rich array of interdisciplinary and transcultural paths of cultural and postcolonial studies within a new critical perspective. Congresso	Ritorni Critici/Critical Revivals Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Itália

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2024/01/01 - 2024/08/31	Choreopoetics	(Master)	Dutch Art Institute, Países Baixos
2024/01/10 - 2024/03/26	“Choreopoethics: undisciplined corporeal publishing and choreographic planning” Lecture on “Introducing ‘Chorea’ and ‘po-ethics’ and Annotations for ‘Notes toward a Black Feminist Poethics’ by Denisa Ferreira da Silva”	COOP: “Choreopoethics: undisciplined corporeal publishing and choreographic planning” (Master Universitario)	Dutch Art Institute, Países Baixos
2022/10/22 - 2023/06/25	Publishing Practices	COOP STUDY GROUP (Master Universitario)	Dutch Art Institute, Países Baixos
2022/10/22 - 2023/06/18	COOP: “Publishing Practices: Textauralities, Oralitures, Corpoliteracies” TOPICS: “Seaming, Frayed and Fragmenting”/Textures, textiles, textuality/"Translation, Aesth-Ethics and The Undercommons"	Master in Performing Arts/Art Praxis (Master Universitario)	Dutch Art Institute, Países Baixos

Tutoria

	Tópico	Nome do aluno
2023/10/01 - 2024/07/31	Spiritual Fabulations Science and Magic without Separability	Ioli Kavakou

Distinções

Prémio

2023	Graduate Student Award
2000	Pagella Aurea- Best Student of the Year Istituto Tommaso Campanella Liceo Linguistico, Itália