Andrea Rizzi is professor of Italian Studies and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He is the Convenor of the Network of Associate and Deputy Deans (NOADD) for The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH). He has published widely on the cultural and political role of literary translators, and on trust and communication in early modern Europe. His most recently book is What is Translation History? A Trust-based Approach (Palgrave 2019, with co-authors Anthony Pym and Birgit Lang). He was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2015-2019) and Villa I Tatti Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Fellow (2010-2011).
