B6: “The Translatress in her Person Speaks:” Women Translators and the Art of Cultural Mediation

Seminar Leader: Anna Barker, University of Iowa

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Westminster 1

Sabine Golz, University of Iowa: “The Secret Fingering of Language: Toward a Poetics of Translation”

Luise von Flotow, University of Ottawa, Canada: “The Bible in Subjective Mode: Julia Evelina Smith, Translator of the Word”

Nicky Agate, University of Iowa: “Internal Wrangle: How to Translate Le Nom Du Pere?”

M. Abasuddin Tapadar, Jawaharlal Nehru University: “Translation as Manipulation: Gayatri Spivak’s Translating/Translations of Mahasweta Devi”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Westminster 1

Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Northern Michigan University: “(De)Genderizing Perfectibility: Romantic Women Reformists Translate Male Ideas on Education”

Anna Barker, University of Iowa: “Translating Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot’s German Connection”

Aletha Stahl, Earlham College: “Reading Women Who Translate with Men: Annette Smith, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, and the Production of Martinican Difference”

Marta Wilkinson, University of California – Santa Barbara: “The World is Not Enough - Victoria Ocampo’s (Re)Solution to Cultural Misunderstanding”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Westminster 1

Aviya Kushner, University of Iowa: “Sexy Cafe Girls Vs. Baking Grandmas: Gender Politics and Contemporary Israeli Women’s Poetry in Translation”

Mary Delle LeBeau, University of Southern California – Los Angeles: “The First Lady of Russian Letters: Anna Bunina’s (1774-1828) Writings and Translations”

Tom Dolack, University of Oregon:     “A Dream of Light in the Eternal Darkness: The Translations of Karolina Pavlova”

Julia Zarankin, Princeton University: “Transposing Folklore: Marina Tsvetaeva’s French Autotranslations”