Nicoletta Asciuto is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York. She has published several articles on modernist poetry and poetics, and her monograph Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry, 1909-1930, is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press. She has also published several literary translations from Italian, Spanish, and Slovenian into English, including, more recently, those for Early Radio: An Anthology of European Texts and Translations, edited by Emilie Morin (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
Nicoletta Asciuto
Contributions
Modernist Periodical Studies and the Transnational Turn
In his 1916 essay “Trans-national America,” Randolph Bourne rejects an anglophone, “Anglo-Saxon” vision of US society and culture. Like many of his contemporary writer-editors in multilingual New York, Bourne’s vision of a modern US literature was polyglot and polyvocal.