Translation Close-Up
Founded in 2019, Translation Close-Up is an informal lecture series that offers a detailed look at what translators do and what makes translation possible. Faculty and students present their recent or ongoing translation projects. Community members interested in sharing their work are also welcome to submit a proposal by contacting Professor Regina Galasso. Meetings are usually held on Friday afternoons in September, October, November, February, March, and April.
Spring 2023 Presenters
Alessandro Vettori, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Chair of the Department of Italian.
Sandra Waters, PhD Rutgers University. Managing editor of Italian Quarterly.
Eilis Kierans, PhD candidate in italisn Studies at Rutgers University. Editor of the creative reviews section of Italian Quartely and co-editor of Other Voices of Italy.
Fall 2022 Presenters
Guliz Akcasoy, PhD(c) Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey and visiting PhD Scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Ozum Arzik-Erzurumlu, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies, Bahcesehir University, Turkey and visiting researcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Volga Yilmaz-Gumus, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies, Anadolu University, Turkey and visiting researcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Novriyanto Napu, PhD University of South Australia and lecturer & researcher at University Negeri Gorontalo.
Spring 2022 Presenters
Jeff Diteman, PhD student in the Comparative Literature Program at UMass Amherst. His research focuses on figures of substitute motherhood in Latin American and Caribbean literature.
Sarah Aldawood, PhD student in the Comparative Literature Program. Communication and Outreach Assistant.
Tal Goldfajn, PhD in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology, University of Oxford. Assistant Professor in the department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Cristiano Mazzei, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst. Senior Lecturer and Director of Online Translator and Interpreter Training.
Laurence Ibrahim Aibo, PhD in Translation Studies University of Montreal. Translation and Interpretation Instructor.
Spring 2021 Presenters
Noelle McManus, Linguistics, Spanish, and German student at UMass Amherst on her senior thesis project translating Estás muy callada hoy (2020) by Argentine writer Ana Navaja.
Jeff Diteman, PhD student in the Comparative Literature Program at UMass Amherst. His research focuses on figures of substitute motherhood in Latin American and Caribbean literature.
Madeleine Cohen, academic director at the Yiddish Book Center, and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Spring 2019 Presenters
Rebecca Duke Wiesenberg, Translation Editor of the Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Corine Tachtiris, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, on her English translation Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste by Bona Mbella
Velma García-Gorena, Professor of Government at Smith College, on her translated work of the Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral
