EUTERPE Project, three-years in: a podcast library and industry partnerships

Posted on 14 November 2025

Fostering meaningful partnerships outside academia is at the heart of the EUTERPE Project

Just over three years old, the EUTERPE Project, whose York work package is led by CWS’s Dr Boriana Alexandrova and Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English and Related Literature), is in full swing.

Last month, the Euterpe consortium launched the project’s podcast library. This is a collection of conversations, readings and interviews with transnational writers, poets and academics on the topics of transnational literatures and gender in Europe. Based at CWS, Euterpe doctoral candidate Alice Flinta interviewed York-based poet, performer and Professor at the University of Leeds, Kimberly Campanello on her transnational belongings between the U.S., Italy and the U.K., and how they reverberate in her literary work.
The library also features a conversation between CWS PhD researcher and poet Minal Sukumar and EUTERPE doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna).

Alice also had the pleasure and honour of interviewing PEN-award-winner writer Elvira Dones on her life in Albania, her exile in Switzerland and her transnational literary work spanning across Albania, Switzerland, Italy, Kosovo and the U.S.. Their conversation will be made available through the podcast library in the near future.

Fostering meaningful partnerships outside academia is at the heart of the EUTERPE Project, which is why CWS came together with Manchester-based independent publishing house Comma Press, where Alice completed a two-month internship during the summer. During this time, Alice contributed to Comma’s publishing mission and vision: from carrying out research underpinning the early stages of a book-idea, to editing translations, and pre-print proofreading, Alice got to experience what goes on behind the scenes before a title lands on a bookstore shelf. Even though her internship is formally over, Alice has an ongoing collaboration with Comma for the upcoming title The Book of Rome, part of the publisher’s Reading the City series.

What’s coming up in the next few months?
Reinforcing its commitment to public engagement and knowledge exchange, in the next few months the EUTERPE team will be busy enriching the podcast library, which will also feature event recordings from the highly successful York-Coventry Spring School CWS hosted in May 2025.

Following the public engagement workshop “Making Waves… Of Words!” led by Alice Flinta and Evangeline Scarpulla during the York Festival of Ideas, we look forward to exhibiting the final artwork in 2026 at the York Explore Library, where the project took place.