Tal Goldfajn

Tal Goldfajn is a linguist, translation scholar, and translator. She is an Assistant Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMass Amherst. Her writings and translations have appeared with Oxford University Press, Tel Aviv University Press, Asia Publishers and Routledge, and in venues such as PMLA, TTR, Linguistica Antverpiensia, The Common, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Words Without Borders, among others. She is working on a book titled Translation and Inheritance, for the Routledge series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Her most recent English translation, Marcelo, Martello, Marshmallow by Ruth Rocha (Tapioca Stories), was selected by the United States Board on Books for Young People as a 2025 Outstanding International Book.