Session Details

Monday, 28 December

335. Gender and Translation: Voice, Politics, Praxis

7:15–8:30 p.m., Commonwealth Hall C, Loews

Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council

Presiding: Alexandra Ker Wettlaufer, Univ. of Texas, Austin

1. “At the Intersection of Translation and Creative Writing: Women Translators in Nineteenth-Century France,” Rachel Williams, Penn State Univ., University Park

2. “Doing Feminist Translations as a Form of Political Activism: The Turkish Translation of Virgin,” Emek Ergun, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County

3. “Re-Creating the Voice of a Woman Poet: Translations of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry in Russia,” Maria Khotimsky, Harvard Univ.

Respondent: Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York

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