What do Students Want from Literary Translation Programs and Workshops?, Part 1

But because we’re working from different languages and part of different diasporas, we began to consider the possibilities of inter-diasporic learning. We aim to propose a couple ideas of our own, generate more through audience participation, and conclude with a list of different workshop models for educators to try out (something like Craft in the Real World, but for literary translation workshops). The organizers will potentially make a zine after the event. Format: Readings about the history and politics of literary translation will be circulated in advance. The organizers will present their experiences in being taught and teaching literary translation. Then participants will share theirs, from which the group will make pro/con lists.

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Organizers

Soje is the translator of Lee Hyemi’s Unexpected Vanilla (Tilted Axis Press, 2020), Choi Jin-young’s To the Warm Horizon (Honford Star, 2021), and Lee Soho’s Catcalling (Open Letter Books, 2021). They make chogwa, a quarterly e-zine featuring one Korean poem and multiple English translations. They also served as Modern Poetry in Translation’s 2020 Writer-in-Residence. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a writer, teacher, and translator from Japanese who currently resides in Iowa City. She received her BA in English from Wesleyan University and her PhD in Japanese from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently at work on a contemporary Japanese novel called My Mother’s Shadow by the writer and musician Ozaki Sekaikan.

Participants

Eliza Claudia Filimon is a full-time Senior Lecturer of English at University of the West, Timisoara, Romania, teaching Literary and Audiovisual Translation and Film Studies. She is an assessor in Creative Writing contests, a film judge, and translation editor of international journals. She also organizes a yearly literary translation contest for students called Shades of Meaning. She is a freelance translator (RO, EN, NL, ES). Andrea Jurjević is the author or Small Crimes (Anhiga Press, 2017), which won the Philip Levine Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Nightcall (Willow Springs Books, 2021). Her booklength translations from Croatian include Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020). Laura Cesarco Eglin translates from the Portuguese, Portuñol, Galician, and Spanish. She’s the translator of Hilda Hilst’s Of Death. Minimal Odes (co•im•press), which won the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. She co-translated from the Portuñol Fabián Severo’s Night in the North (Eulalia Books). She is the publisher of Veliz Books. Berenice Cocciolillo teaches Italian language and translation at John Cabot University. She is one of the editors of InVerse: Italian Poets in Translation, published by JCU Press. She has translated works by many Italian poets, including Annelisa Alleva, Antonella Anedda, Jolanda Insana, Anna Cascella Luciani, and Livia Chandra Candiani. Frances Riddle is a translator of Spanish who has published over a dozen book-length translations as well as many short stories and essays in translation. Originally from Houston, Texas, she now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her recent translations include Andrea Jeftanovic’s Theatre of War, Claudia Piñeiro’s Elena Knows, and Isabel Allende’s Violeta. Christina Ng is a Singaporean writer, journalist, and translator based in Berlin. Her Chinese to English translations include poetry by Singaporean poets Liang Wern Fook, Ting Kheng Siong, and Dan Ying, and Chinese poet Hua Qing. She writes about travel, arts, and culture and gives writing workshops in Berlin and Singapore. Katie Whittemore translates from Spanish. Her published translations include novels by Spanish authors Sara Mesa, Aroa Moreno Durán, Nuria Labari, and Javier Serena. Lucinda Clark is the founder of P.R.A. Publishing and the Poetry Matters Project. Clark has worked with audiences ranging from school-aged children to senior citizens. She has published the View From the Middle of the Road series and the Poetry Diversified Anthology series. She is a member of Poets and Writers and the Georgia Poetry Society. Clark currently resides in Martinez, Georgia. Serin Lee is a translator and poet from Seoul, South Korea. She is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, and her interests include migration writing, multilingualism, film, and everything that occurs at the intersection of image and text. Wioletta Polanski is a higher education professional and a published translator of Polish and English. She holds two MA degrees in Translation Studies and in Art & Design/Humanities Computing, both from the University of Alberta. Her research interest encompasses the life and work of Magdalena Samozwaniec, the Kossak Family phenomenon, Holocaust memory, and popular women’s literature. Stine Su Yon An (안수연) is a poet and translator based in New York City. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Black Sun Lit, Fence, Waxwing, Electric Literature, chogwa, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. You can find her online @gregorspamsa. Becka Mara McKay is a poet and translator. She directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University, where she serves as faculty advisor to Swamp Ape Review. Her newest book of poems is The Little Book of No Consolation (Barrow Street Press, 2021). Eri Nakagawa is a translator, researcher, and lecturer at the University of Tokyo, where she earned her PhD in Translation Studies. Her research interests include literary translation and creativity. She has translated poetry, a movie script, journal articles, and book chapters from English to Japanese.