Alessio Mattana

Alessio Mattana is a postdoctoral research fellow in English literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Turin, Italy, where he also teaches English and translation. He obtained his PhD at the University of Leeds in 2020 with a thesis on the impact of Newtonianism on writing in eighteenth-century Britain. His research interests primarily lie in the
influence of experimental and natural philosophy on late seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century narrative, especially on the concept of fiction; in the uses of translation in early-modern scientific texts to gain access to knowledge networks; and in the role of images in early-modern scientific texts.

The project

Title : Traductrices de sciences en Grande-Bretagne et en France, 1660-1800

Selective bibliography

Alessio Mattana, “‘The Eye to the Object’: The Question of Demonstrative Knowledge in Defoe’s The Consolidator”, English Studies (2023).

Alessio Mattana, “The Modest Genius: Mathematics, Certainty, and the Creation of the Public Newton”, Eighteenth-Century Life 47:3 (2023).

Alessio Mattana, “Femmes de science en Angleterre et auctorialité à la fin du XVIIe siècle et au début du XVIIIe: quelques considerations”, in Femmes de science, edited by Natasa Raschi and Cristina Trinchero (Rome: Carocci, 2021), 86-97.

Alessio Mattana, “The Allure of Synthesis: Science and the Literary in Comparative and World Literature”, Comparative Critical Studies 17:3 (2020), 351–372.

Alessio Mattana, “Antiquitas Non Fingo: Newton, the Moderns and the Science of Ancient History”, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 43:4 (2020), 447– 461