ALTA45 Roundtable Bringing Language to Life Translation in the Undergraduate Classroom

Participants will share examples of activities from their courses and discuss how these assignments connected with class content and learning objectives.

Format: Roundtable participants are asked to come prepared with example of course activity to share with attendees.

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Organizer

Colleen Lucey, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature and visual culture, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, and Russian language instruction.

Participants

Patrick Ploschnitzki is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida’s Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He holds a dual-degree PhD in Transcultural German Studies from the Universities of Arizona and Leipzig. His research investigates discourses around dubbing related to US-American television translated for broadcast in German-speaking countries. Other research interests include the use of online translation tools in the language classroom. He translates German, Swiss, and Austrian literature into English. Sibelan Forrester has translated fiction, poetry, and scholarly prose from Croatian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian. She teaches at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Heather Green is translator of Tristan Tzara’s Noontimes Won (Octopus Books, 2018) and Guide to the Heart Rail (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2017). Her translation of Sarah Manigne’s novella Leaving Madrid recently won the French Voices award. Her poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Denver Quarterly, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry International, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University.