Amy Harris
Amy is an academic in the humanities field, expecting to complete her fully-funded Doctor of Philosophy in 2028. She holds a Master of Translation Studies specialising in Italian to English translation. Her current research project, 'Dante in the Anglosphere: an excursus in language and translation', explores how the Divine Comedy continues to evolve in English as informed by changing trends in translation strategies.
Her research interests include Dante, reception, comparative literature, public and digital humanities, as well as translation and its intersections with other fields such as memory studies. Amy takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how modern people broach medieval texts.
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Publications
The Afterlife Dopo Dante: Translating the Topography of Inferno and Purgatorio for the Twenty-First Century
In Press / Italian Studies
Echoes of Paradise: Analysing 21st Century Renderings of Sound of Paradiso 30
2024 / Italiano LinguaDue 16.2
Heaven in the Secular Age: Translations of Paradiso 30 in the 21st century
2023 / Journal of Italian Translation 18.2
Teaching and Academic Activities
Amy works as a casual lecturer and tutor at the University of Western Australia. She has delivered special guest lectures in undergraduate Italian Studies, and in 2024 led the postgraduate unit 'Technologies for the Translator'.
She also designs academic resources and provides support to university students. In 2025 she developed the interactive video series 'Studying languages', comprised of three modules that teach essential skills for learning an additional language. She is also a Group Leader for UWA's EQUIP program that helps students transition into university life over a period of five weeks.
Amy is always seeking opportunities to apply her research skills to practical use. In 2025 she designed an archival system and traced an organisational history for the Australia New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. In 2023 she crafted the Translation and Interpreting Researchers Database, intended to centralize names and contacts of researchers in Australia, both established and emerging.
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Awards and Appearances
ACIS Conference Travel Scholarship 2026
'Post-translation studies and the Epistemological Space of Memory: Selectivity, Memory Sites and Dante's Commedia' (ACIS conference presentation) 2026
'Conversations on Dante 16: Amy Harris and Kimberly Campanello on Experimental Translations of Dante' podcast 2026
UWA Convocation Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence 2025
'Dante's Divine Comedy: How We Remember a Classic' (Limina conference presentation) 2025
AUSIT Student Excellence Award 2023
'Gli italiani hanno un senso di identità molto forte' podcast 2022
UWA Careers and Employability Award 2021
