ALTA45 Panel: Translation Rights and Permissions

We will discuss issues such as: how to and whom to query for translation rights; legal and financial considerations; fair use exceptions; and permissions for translation theses and dissertations.

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Moderator

Corine Tachtiris is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an at-large member of the ALTA Board. She translates literature primarily by contemporary Francophone African, Caribbean, and Canadian, as well as Czech, women authors. She is prose translation editor at The Massachusetts Review.

Panelists

Kristin Dykstra is an award-winning writer, translator, and scholar. Five of her editions were the first book-length representations of their Cuban authors in English, featuring Reina María Rodríguez, Omar Pérez, Ángel Escobar, Marcelo Morales, and Juan Carlos Flores; Dykstra co-edited and co-translated the first English-language anthology for Amanda Berenguer, of Uruguay. Erin Jerome is the Library Publishing & Institutional Repository Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She partners with the Graduate School to provide copyright assistance and technology support for graduate students writing and submitting their dissertations and theses. She earned her Ph.D. in Musicology from Brandeis University. Bishan Samaddar is an editor and one of the directors of Seagull Books, based in Calcutta, India. He is commissioning editor for Seagull’s Pride List, which focuses on LGBT works, and coordinates acquisitions for Seagull’s Arab, Hungarian, and Slovak lists.