Translating the Local

Albertine Translation Prize

I was invited to be the “Master of Ceremony” for this year’s Albertine Translation Prize. At the event we hosted “translation jousts” which featured two translators displaying their translations of the same passage alongside the original. It was an interesting…

Bio

Hi everyone! I am a poet and translator in my first year in the Comp Lit PhD. I’ve worked on the poetry of Joyce Mansour, a Jewish-Egyptian Surrealist, and am largely interested in avant-garde 20th century poetics in particular French…