Manchester Translation Series 2026: Melissa Tanti in conversation

Melissa Tanti, PhD, is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Arts and Creative Cultures at Coventry University. Her scholarship surrounds contemporary experimental literature and poetry by women. Her book, The Translating Subject (MQUP 2025), focuses on a recent shift in women’s writing toward multilingual poetics and considers the potential for multilingual experimental texts to set up innovative terms of engagement that are queer, feminist, transnational, and decolonizing. As an extension of her interest in experimental forms, she co-creates research projects that enable communities to tell their stories in innovative and creative ways. Recent publications can be found in Journal of Family Violence, Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature, and Breaking the Barriers: Gender, Culture and Diversity in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Routledge 2026). She is currently co-editing the Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature Since 1900 (Edinburgh UP 2026).

This event is part of the 2026 Manchester Translation Series.

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