R215B. Where Literary and Professional Translation Meet

A103-104, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Panelists will discuss the merits of including literary translation in the graduate professional translation curriculum. Literary translators who teach in these programs find that their knowledge and skills transfer readily to professional translation. These include writing practice, close reading of master translators' works, and studying the models offered by award-winning translations. Panelists will focus on specific examples from their respective teaching and translation practices.


Participants

Moderator:

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 TroyThe Garden of Departed Cats, (2004 National Translation Award); and A Long Day’s Evening

Becka Mara McKay directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Her chapbook of prose poems is, Happiness Is the New Bedtime. Other publications include a book of poetry, A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, and several translations of fiction and poetry. Her work can be found in recent issues of Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, Ghost Town, Ploughshares, and Post Road.
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