At this interactive event, three CLA Faculty will present recent and forthcoming book projects related to translation as a form of poetic praxis, invention, and research. At the end, there will be a Transcreation Activity inviting audience participation—no experience with poetry or translation required.
- Isabel C. Gómez (Associate Professor, Latin American & Iberian Studies)
Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (Northwestern UP 2023) excavates a network of Latin American translation projects that resist assimilation by digesting, transforming, and challenging source materials.
- Patrick Barron (Professor, English)
Gianni Celati: Selected Essays and Dialogues (University College London Press, forthcoming 2023) is a selection of Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s critical work from the late 1960s to the near present translated into English & ranging in topic from environmental perception and archaeological conceptions of historical knowledge to street theater, slapstick comedy, photography, and translation.
- Daniel C. Remein (Associate Professor, English)
The Heat of Beowulf (Manchester 2022) investigates twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer’s and Robin Blaser’s encounter with Beowulf as a comparative horizon by which to understand the multisensory, synesthetic, ecopoetical world of the Old English poem.
Integrated Science Complex (ISC) Room 3300
**refreshments provided**