Brigid Maher joined Italian Studies at La Trobe at the start of 2010; she previously taught at Monash University and the Australian National University. For her PhD in Translation Studies (Monash) she investigated the translation of humour, irony, satire, parody and the grotesque in Italian and English literature.

In addition to continuing her work on humour and its translation, she is currently undertaking research related to contemporary Italian literature, transnational literature, and the circulation, translation and reception of crime fiction. She also undertakes research on the scholarship of learning and teaching, with projects on gender-expansive teaching practices, as well as research into the role of translation in language teaching. Brigid is a past member of the editorial teams of the Routledge journal, Translation Studies and of the journal of literary translation, The AALITRA Review.

Brigid is also a literary translator. Her translations into English of novels by Milena Agus, Nicola Lagioia, Bianca Pitzorno and others have been published in Australia, the UK and the US. Through her translation work and her research activity she seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of translation studies.