Antonio Lavieri

Born in Italy in 1972, Antonio Lavieri graduated from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has long lived in Paris, where he studied with scholars such Jean-René Ladmiral, Henri Meschonnic, Sylvain Auroux, Gérard Genette, Jacques Le Goff, Marc Augé and Nicole Belmont. In 2007 he completed a Ph.D in Translation Studies and Comparative literature at Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense/Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale.
Lavieri is currently Full Professor of French Linguistics and Translation Studies at Università degli Studi di Palermo. Beetwen 2005 and 2009, he has been lecturing in Applied Translation Studies at the ISIT (Institut Supérieur d’Interprétation et de Traduction, Paris). He  lectured on Translation Studies and French and Comparative Literature in a number of universities and research institutions, including University of Cape Town, University of Montreal, University of Tanger, University of Tartu, the Waterford Institute of Technology.
President and Founder of the Italian Society for Translation Studies (Società italiana di traduttologia), he is the general editor of Strumenti Translation Library (Mucchi editore). He is a member of editorial or advisory boards of several journals and series, a member of the SOFT (Société française de traductologie), ITEM-CNRS (Equipe Multilinguisme, Création Traduction), HTLF (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and other academic associations He has edited special journal issues devoted to Paul Valéry poetics of Translation (Testo a fronte, n. 18, 1998) and Genetic criticism and Translation (with Viviana Agostini-Ouafi, Transalpina, n. 18, 2015). He translated into Italian works by Paul Valéry, André Malraux, Nicole Brossard,  Octavio Paz, Jean-René Ladmiral, Henri Meschonnic.