CONVERSATIONS ON THE ART OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN CELEBRATION OF THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY LITERARY TRANSLATION SEMINAR

Translation, scholarship, and original writing can function as reciprocal props, platforms, and opportunities for performance. Panelists will talk about the myriad paths they’ve traveled, as their translation work has led them to write biographies, literary and cultural studies, memoirs, poems, and fictions (in which translators may be starring characters!). This will be a discussion about…

With Hugh Hazelton, Benoit Léger, Danièle Marcoux, Mary di Michèle, Sherry Simon and Judith Woodsworth  

Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen talk about Pérez's recent book, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of this community and how it was…

Keynote, University of Alabama Languages Conference, February 8-9, 2019.