Lilian’s academic training focuses on a wide range of literature reaching from world classics to contemporary experimental work, especially literary theory of the Anthropocene, monster theory, the grotesque, classical reception of myths of metamorphoses, hybrid bodies, eco-translation, feminist/queer studies, disability studies, Medieval French and Italian love narratives.

You can read some of her work here. Please reach out directly to read her M.Phil. Dissertation.

Education

  • Trinity College Dublin

    Ph.D., Italian Studies, 2023-2024. Withdrawn.

    M.Phil., 2022-2023

    Comparative Literature

    First Class Honours awarded to Dissertation

    Dublin, Ireland

    Ph.D. and M.Phil. Supervisor: Dr. Igor Candido, Assistant Professor

  • Smith College

    A.B., 2017-2020

    Comparative Literature and Translation Studies

    Equivalent of French and Italian minors

    In-major GPA of 3.96

    Phi Beta Kappa

    Cum Laude

    Highest Honors

    Northampton, MA, USA 01063

    Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Anna Botta, Professor

Poem “Lean,” in Issue 1 of Lit.202 Magazine: Nominated for Best of the Net 2023.

Dean’s List: 2018-2020

Phi Beta Kappa: 2021

Cum Laude: 2021

Highest Honors in Comparative World Literatures: 2021

Anacleta Vezzetti Prize in Italian Studies, 2021: Awarded to the best pieces of writing in Italian on any aspect of the culture of Italy

Honors Thesis: “Tentacular Thinking: Medusa in and of the Anthropocene” awarded Highest Honors

Praxis Grant, 2020: Awarded to fund summer fellowship on the Ed Markey Campaign for United States Senate.

Praxis Plus International Grant, 2019: Awarded to fund summer research assistantship in Paris, France with Stony Brook University.

 

Awards, Honors, and Grants

Translation Portfolio

  • Limbes / Limbo

    N.Huston- Limbes Limbo

    Limbes / Limbo 

    Un hommage à Samuel Beckett, Nancy Huston 1998

  • Au Théâtre

    by Eugène Ionesco

    At The Theatre

    Characters

    Philippe, the professor

    Jean-Marie, the student

  • Exercises de style – Lettre officielle

    by Raymond Queneau

    Official Letter

    I have the honor of informing you of the following facts, which I was able to witness in a manner as horrified as it was impartial.

  • Duras: A Series of Translations from L’Amant de Chine du Nord

    Elle regarde tout, elle inspecte le lieu, cette chambre, cet homme, et amant, cette nuit à travers les persiennes. Elle dit qu’il fait nuit.

  • Duras: Excerpt from L’Amant

    L’amant de Cholen s’est fait à l’adolescence de la petite blanche jusqu’à s’y perde. La jouissance qu’il prend à elle chaque soir a engagé son temps, sa vie. Il ne lui parle presque plus.

  • Zefiro Torna

    Zefiro torna

    Francesco Petrarca

  • The Green New Deal

    My English to French translation

  • Pachamama

    Excerpted from An Ecotopian Lexicon, eds. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Brent Ryan Bellamy

Publications

 

Academic

Accepted, issue was canceled due to pandemic: “Chronicle of a feijoada brasileira” by Christiana de Caldas Brito, translated by Lilian Rose McCarthy and Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi. In Metamorphoses: The Five College Journal of Literary Translation, Northampton, MA, USA.

Please find more about my undergraduate translation projects here.

Journalism

(May 2023). Burn Book: Film Hype. Trinity Film Review - Best Film Ever (Spring-Summer 2023). Co-authored with Chiara Gregor.

(January 2023). Sexuality’s Sway on Camp: Camp and Sexuality. Trinity Film Review - The Camp Issue (Winter 2022-3). Pages 22-23.

(February 2023). A Question of Bodily Autonomy: To Wear Or Not To Wear the Hijab. The Colloquium Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 1. Pages 24-26.

(2019, August 20). Are You the One: Come One Come Most — What is Missing in MTV’s Sexually Fluid Reality Show. Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide.

Essay & CNF

(September 2022). “Foggy Flâneur.” Corporeal Literature Magazine.

(2019). Hume: Liberation and Sympathy. The Showbear Family Circus.

Poetry

Forthcoming: “Drift” and “Feather.” Ergi Press, Issue 2.

Series.” Wishbone Words, Issue 8. October 10, 2022.

3 parts.” JAKE The Anti-Literature Magazine. August 13, 2022.

3 parts.” Bibliopunk. August 1, 2022.

Elegy.” Wild Roof Magazine, Issue #15, July 2022.

Renaissance.” Neuro Logical Magazine. July 26, 2022.

Twine.” Delicate Emissions. Volume 1, Issue 3. June 21, 2022.

Knitting.” The Closed Eye Open. June 14, 2022.

Pearl.” The Dillydoun Review, Issue 17, June 7, 2022.

Headache.” Snowflake Magazine. Spring 2022.

Lean.” Lit.202, Issue 001. May 2022. Nominated for Best of the Net 2023.

“Subway.” Spoonie Press. June 2022.

McCarthy, L.R. “Villa,” “Details,” “Feather,” “Knitting.” Lover’s Eye Press. May 31, 2022.

Start again.” Blue Daisies Journal, April 22, 2022.

Two Months.” FENCE Magazine, November 28, 2021.

“Emergency Room.” The Ricochet Review. Vol. 8, Spring 2020.

(2019). Two Months. Matter Press: Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

 

Presentations and Invited Lectures

 

World Literatures 340: Tentacular Thinking in Comparative Literature, April, 2021.

 

Special Studies Seminar, “Chronicle of a feijoada brasileira,” Collaborations, May, 2020 (canceled due to pandemic).

 

Honors Thesis Defense, “Tentacular Thinking: Medusa in and of the Anthropocene,” December 4, 2020.

Skills

    1. Content strategy

    2. Content management

    3. Copywriting

    4. Proofreading

    5. Press release

    6. Media research

    7. Storytelling

    8. Design thinking

    9. Artistic competence

    10. Website platforms: Squarespace, Wordpress, Wikipedia, Tumblr

    11. Social: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat

    12. Software: Canva, Asana, WorkDay, HootSuite, Slack, Google Suite, Microsoft Suite

    1. Literary analysis: fiction, poetry, secondary sources

    2. Academic writing

    3. Critical thinking

    4. Library and other research

    5. Literary and critical theory

    6. Literary history,

    7. Indexing

    8. Collaborative research

    9. Time management

    10. Scholarly presentations & public speaking

    11. Cross-institution collaboration

    1. Academic writing

    2. Translation: French & Italian

    3. Poetry writing & editing

    4. Journalism & journalistic research

    5. Pop culture writing

    6. Synthesizing academic writing and theory

    7. Comfortable with science writing

    8. Storytelling

    9. Proofreading

    10. General editing

    11. Writing coaching

    1. Medieval European literature & philosophy

    2. Queer Theory

    3. Disability Studies

    4. Monster Theory

    5. 20th-century literature and theory (Europe and United States)

    6. Anthropocene studies

    7. Ecohumanities

    8. Classical reception

    9. Media and pop culture studies

    10. Animal Studies

    11. Mythography and Greek myth transmission

    12. Folklore

    13. Gothic

    14. Horror & queer horror

    15. Film & queer film

    16. Psychoanalysis

    17. Emotions

    18. Embodiment

    19. Grotesque

    20. Ovid, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Christine de Pizan, Louise Labé, Shakespeare, Francis Beaumont, Charlotte Brontë, Bram Stoker, Mikhail Bakhtin, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Charles Singleton, John Freccero, Kevin Brownlee, Michael Cronin, Barbara Creed, Chelsea G. Summers, Donna Haraway, Hélène Cixous, Rosi Braidotti, Asa Mittman, Timothy Morton, Stephen T. Asma

    1. Community building

    2. Group work

    3. Canvassing

    4. Phone-banking

    5. Financial & donor research

    6. Environmental policy

The Adroit Journal

January 2023 - September 2024

Oxford Anthology of Translation

September 2022 - September 2024

The Impact Collective

January 2021 - August 2022

Charlotte Kelly for Somerville City Council At-Large

2021

Honors Thesis: “Tentacular Thinking: Medusa in and of the Anthropocene”

2020

Metamorphoses: The Five College Journal of Literary Translation

2018 – 2020

Ed Markey Campaign for United States Senate

2020

Stony Brook University

2019

Soapbox: Undergraduate Journal of Government

2017 - 2020

Poetry Reader

Remote

In this role, I read, comment on, and recommend publication (or not) for poetry submissions. I work in community with a large number of impressive readers, editors, and poets to facilitate the development of each issue.

About: The Adroit Journal is a registered literary and arts nonprofit organization that was founded in 2010 by poet Peter LaBerge. At its foundation, the journal has its eyes focused ahead, seeking to showcase what its global staff of emerging writers sees as the future of poetry, prose, and art. Featured in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prizes Anthology, Poetry Daily, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, and by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Teen Vogue, PBS NewsHour, and NPR, The Adroit Journal has featured the voices of Fatimah Asghar, NoViolet Bulawayo, K-Ming Chang, Franny Choi, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes, Sarah Kay, Dorianne Laux, Lydia Millet, D. A. Powell, Diane Seuss, Danez Smith, Arthur Sze, Ned Vizzini, Ocean Vuong, and more than one thousand more.

Italian and French Language Editor

Remote/Oxford UK

The Oxford Anthology of Translation (OAT) is a new translation project run by Oxford students aiming to establish an interdisciplinary space where all those interested in both the practical and theoretical aspects of translation can come together. Alongside printing this magazine, the journal intends to run events where students will be invited to read and workshop their translations. As part of the Italian translation team, and back-up editor for the French team, duties include editing and critiquing submitted translations, communicating with translators, collaborating with an international coalition of undergraduate and postgraduate translators and editors, and finalizing pieces for publication.

Curriculum Coordinator, Program Developer

Boston, MA, USA

Built and launched The Impact Collective, an antiracist financial education group founded to educate, empower, and activate wealthy women to reduce the racial wealth gap in the United States. Other duties include creating and maintaining the curriculum for the workshop, serving as Teaching Assistant during sessions, coordinating organization-wide communications, and working on large-scale program expansion.

Communications Consultant

Somerville, MA, USA

Supported building the Communications team for the campaign, which won by a decisive margin. Further duties included educating team on political communications strategy and content writing, streamlining social media calendar and strategy, designing graphics for campaign-wide updates, and completing successful endorsement questionnaires for over a dozen groups, including Boston and National Democratic Socialists of America, Sierra Club, Our Revolution Somerville, Sunrise Movement Somerville, and multiple high-powered labor unions and groups.

Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA

Advisor: Anna Botta

Second Reader: Lily Gurton-Wachter

Awarded Highest Honors in May, 2021

Editorial and Research Intern

Northampton, MA, USA

Work included copyediting, critiquing and analyzing original and translated texts, collaborating on layout and design. Built new website over summer 2019 and transferred all data from old website into new location and format.

Communications and Digital Fellow, Taylor St. Germain, Paul Bologna

Remote/Boston, MA, USA

Wrote remarks, briefs, talking points, and press releases for the Senator and his campaign. Wrote speeches and engage in debate prep work for the Communications Team and Senator. Drafted tweets and Instagram posts for the Senator's social media; during time as a Digital fellow, the Senator's Twitter following increased by 150,000 and his Instagram by over 50,000.

Research Assistant, Distinguished Professor Robert Harvey

Paris, France

Worked directly under Robert Harvey, Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, NY. Translated bibliography and citations of his book Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (2017) into French language and style using the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, France. Perfected French during residency. Increased fluency with library systems and both English and European bibliographic formats.

Editor-in-Chief

Northampton, MA, USA

Duties included reading and editing submitted papers, organizing meetings with associate editors, determining papers to include in final edition, and communicating with members of the Five College Consortium to encourage submissions from associated universities.

Languages

Native

English

Advanced

French

Italian

Beginner

Irish

Latin