Queer Kinship In Life Writing And Translation

When and Where

Thursday, January 22, 2026 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Streaming on YouTube: @QueerKinshipNetwork)

Speakers

Monica Meneghetti

Description

Join us January for an online talk with award-winning Italian-Canadian author Monica Meneghetti as we explore:

🌈 Queer & Italian-Canadian identities
✍️ Writing and translation as power
🌍 Intercultural & decolonial solidarity

Monica Meneghetti is the author of the award-winning memoir What the Mouth Wants and an acclaimed literary translator working across English, Italian, and French.

Online, Free & open to the public

Event in English, organized by the Queer Kinship Network Siena–Oxford–Toronto. 

The Queer Kinship Research Network is a collaborative project headed by Silvia Antosa, Charlotte Ross, and Paolo Frascà, queer scholars in English Studies and Italian Studies. The collaboration explores the histories and new transformative shifts of queer affective bonds and familial dynamics, examining the impact of recent legal changes, social developments, scholarly contributions, and cultural representation. By fostering critical debate and interdisciplinary exchanges, the project seeks to develop a deeper awareness of diverse configurations of queer bonds and families within a plural, multicultural, and inclusive framework. While grounded in the study of the English and Italian-speaking worlds, the research project also intends to identify trends, create new methodologies, and explore the transcultural and transnational circulation of discourses on non-normative/marginalized affective bonds and queer families.

Contact Information

Paolo Frascà
416-978-2201

Sponsors

ISPLAS University of Toronto, Università per Stranieri di Siena, Christ Church University of Oxford