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Clorinda Donato’s research addresses three distinct fields: eighteenth-century studies, the Intercomprehension of the Romance languages, and translation studies. In eighteenth-century studies she researches knowledge transfer through translation and genre adaptation in encyclopedic compilations and the prose narrative in the global eighteenth century. She also works on gender in medical and literary accounts, the Catholic and Protestant Enlightenments in Italy and Europe, Freemasonry, and book history.

Her work in Romance languages focuses on multilingual competencies across the Romance language family known as Intercomprehension. Translation plays a significant role in her cultural studies and language pedagogy research. The textbook, Juntos: Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish, produced with co-authors Cedric Joseph Oliva, Daniela Zappador-Guerra, and Manuel Romero, was published with Hackett Publishing Company in 2020.

She has published over 100 articles and book chapters on these topics. She has co-edited four collections, of which her most recent, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations 1680–1830s with Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, will appear with University of Toronto Press in October 2021. She has co-edited Fanny Hill Now, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life, with Nicholas Nace, in April 2019; in 2015 she published The ‘���Գ��⳦���DZ�é�徱�� Méthodique’ in Spain, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment with her former student, Ricardo Lopez.

Her monograph, The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual Identity, Science and Sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England, appeared with Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment in 2020, the same year as the co-edited volume with Stephen Cooper, John Fante's ASK THE DUST: A Joining of Voices, published by Fordham University Press in their Italian American Series. She was the Principal Investigator for the NEH-funded project “French and Italian for Spanish Speakers” 2011-2014.