R215B. Where Literary and Professional Translation Meet
Thursday, March 28, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Participants
Elizabeth Lowe, founder of the University of Illinois Center for Translation Studies, is professor in the New York University M.S. in Translation. She translates fiction from Spanish and Portuguese to English. Elizabeth is translation editor for fiction at Kenyon Review and on the board of Delos.
Jenny McPhee’s translations from Italian include books by Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, Curzio Malaparte, Anna Maria Ortese, Paolo Maurensig, and Pope John Paul II. She is the Director of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at NYU, where she teaches in the MS in Translation.
Joyce Tolliver is a specialist in modern Iberian literatures and cultures at the University of Illinois–Urbana, where she directs the Center for Translation Studies.
Aron Aji is the Director of MFA in Literary Translation. He has translated works by Bilge Karasu, Murathan Mungan, Elif Shafak, Latife Tekin, and other Turkish writers, including three book-length works by Karasu: Death in Troy; The Garden of Departed Cats, (2004 National Translation Award); and A Long Day’s Evening.