JULIA K. NELSEN, Ph.D.
Translations
A Very Cold Winter by Fausta Cialente, Transit Books, 2026.
Two by Fabiano Alborghetti, Amsterdam Review, 2025.
"(origins, positrons)" by Fabiano Alborghetti, Scientific American, 2025.
"Victory of the Ants" ("Vittoria delle formiche") by Luigi Pirandello, in Stories for a Year, eds. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka, Digital Edition, www.pirandellointranslation.org, 2025.
Three Poems by Laura Pugno, Circumference, 2024.
Three Fables by Gianna Manzini, Firmament, 2024.
Five Poems by Laura Pugno, Another Chicago Magazine, 2023.
"False Days" by Gianna Manzini, Two Lines, 2021.
Introduction to Ann Banfield, Describing the Unobserved: Unspeakable Sentences after Unspeakable Sentences, by Sylvie Patron (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019), 1-33. With Victoria Bergstrom.
"Il castrato, un bellissimo 'intermezzo'" by Naomi André, CR Fashion Book 3 (Fall/Winter 2013): 156-7.
"Il pessimismo di Proust. Un antidoto per Beckett" by Ann Banfield, CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism 1 (2012): 11-25. With Sara Sullam.
"We the Citizens" by Salvatore Settis, California Italian Studies 2.1 (2011).
Writing
"Ardengo Soffici’s Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms", Chicago Review, 2023.
"A Science of Feeling: The Futurist Body and Luciano Folgore’s Ponti sull'oceano," International Yearbook of Futurism Studies 8 (2018): 270-293. [PDF]
"Modernist Laboratories: The Prose Poem and the Little Magazines," Letteratura e Letterature 4 (2010): 47-65. [PDF]
In Conversation
"Voice Portraits: Evenings will return… The Voice of Italian Poetry", San Francisco Italian Cultural Institute, 2025.
"Tradurre poesia: Laura Pugno e Julia Nelsen in dialogo," Poesia che mi guardi: Laboratorio di scrittura in versi, 2024.
"So You Think You Can Translate?" Lit Crawl San Francisco, 2024.
"Literature of Ticino: With Italian-speaking Swiss Authors Fabiano Alborghetti and Fabio Andina", Litquake San Francisco, 2022.
"Gianna Manzini: Julia Nelsen on Translating the Overlooked Female Writer", Two Lines, 2021.
"Ciné-Tracts: An Introduction," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2018.
"Pino Masnata, Futurist: A Life in Science and Art," San Francisco Italian Cultural Institute, 2016.
"Navigating Unknown Terrains: Translation, Intermediality, Hybridity" and "Tradotta: Italian Women Writers in Translation," Translation & Crossings, 39th Annual Conference, American Literary Translators Association, Oakland, CA, 2016.
"Radio-Activity as Sensory Experience in Luciano Folgore’s Ponti sull’oceano," 5th Bi-Annual Congress, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Rennes, France, 2016.
"States of Waiting: Fictions of Citizenship in Alba de Céspedes’s Nessuno torna indietro," California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies, San Francisco State University, 2014.
"Cordes faites de cris: Poetic Address and the Wireless Imagination,” Edges of Exposure Conference, Department of French, UC Berkeley, 2012.