Speech for the Interview for the Position of Full Professor in General and Comparative Literature (Translation Studies and Cultural Transfers)

English translation of the speech delivered by Francesca Manzari on May 5, 2023, before the selection committee of Aix-Marseille Université (Aix-en-Provence), for a full professorship in General and Comparative Literature (Translation Studies and Cultural Transfers). The speech defines comparative literature as generalized translation studies and sets out three research directions: an anthology of troubadour translations guided by the translator’s voie médiane (middle way), the modern canon born of the translations of Cavalcanti, and the AIMM13 project on translation and hospitality in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean. It also traces the history of the Master’s in Translation at Aix-Marseille Université. Translated by the author with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic). French original: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23497308.