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
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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 Withdrawn.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
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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
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Limbes / Limbo
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Au Théâtre
by Eugène Ionesco
At The Theatre
Characters
Philippe, the professor
Jean-Marie, the student
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Exercises de style – Lettre officielle
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.
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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.
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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.
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Zefiro Torna
Zefiro torna
Francesco Petrarca
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The Green New Deal
My English to French translation
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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
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Content strategy
Content management
Copywriting
Proofreading
Press release
Media research
Storytelling
Design thinking
Artistic competence
Website platforms: Squarespace, Wordpress, Wikipedia, Tumblr
Social: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat
Software: Canva, Asana, WorkDay, HootSuite, Slack, Google Suite, Microsoft Suite
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Literary analysis: fiction, poetry, secondary sources
Academic writing
Critical thinking
Library and other research
Literary and critical theory
Literary history,
Indexing
Collaborative research
Time management
Scholarly presentations & public speaking
Cross-institution collaboration
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Academic writing
Translation: French & Italian
Poetry writing & editing
Journalism & journalistic research
Pop culture writing
Synthesizing academic writing and theory
Comfortable with science writing
Storytelling
Proofreading
General editing
Writing coaching
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Medieval European literature & philosophy
Queer Theory
Disability Studies
Monster Theory
20th-century literature and theory (Europe and United States)
Anthropocene studies
Ecohumanities
Classical reception
Media and pop culture studies
Animal Studies
Mythography and Greek myth transmission
Folklore
Gothic
Horror & queer horror
Film & queer film
Psychoanalysis
Emotions
Embodiment
Grotesque
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
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Community building
Group work
Canvassing
Phone-banking
Financial & donor research
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