ALTA45 Roundtable Launching the New Undergraduate Caucus

Marguerite Feitlowitz translates poetry, prose and drama from Spanish and French. Her translation of Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo’s Night (supported by an NEA Fellowship) is forthcoming from World Poetry Books. Her translation of Small Bibles for Bad Times: Selected Poetry & Prose by Liliane Atlan was published in 2021. She also translates Griselda Gambaro, Salvador Novo, and Luisa Valenzuela. Regina Galasso is Associate Professor and Director of the Translation Center at UMass Amherst. She is the author of Translating New York: The City’s Languages in Iberian Literatures, winner of the MLA Northeast Annual Book Award. She is preparing This is a Classic: Translation and Survival and a monograph on Edward Hopper in Iberian literatures. Sibelan Forrester has published translations of prose and poetry from Russian and Croatian, and of prose from Serbian. She is professor of Russian Language and Literature at Swarthmore College.

Participant

Colleen Lucey is assistant professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Russian literature and visual culture, Russian language pedagogy, and East European theatre. As UA representative to the ALTA Board, she is dedicated to promoting translation among undergraduates and eagerly supports student participation in ALTA.