Alice Flinta
PhD student

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My research interests have developed in the fields of translation, postcolonial, transnational, and migrant literature; I have conducted archival research on Franco-Algerian writer Albert Camus’s manuscripts, and in my master’s thesis I explored how French author Michel Houellebecq reconceptualises Camus’s absurd, adapting it to the contemporary world.

Modern languages are an integral part of my research: I am fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish and am currently learning Russian. A creative writing and translation enthusiast, my poems have been shortlisted in regional competitions on multiple occasions; in the context of promoting Finnish literature in Italy, some of my translations from English into Italian are published online.

I joined the Centre for Women’s Studies in September 2023 under the supervision of Dr Boriana Alexandrova and Dr Nicoletta Asciuto as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral candidate for the EU- and UKRI-funded project EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. I completed my BA in English and Related Literature at the University of York and hold a Masters in Comparative Literature from the University of St Andrews.