2012 Conference Program - The University of Texas at Dallas

Convention. With ever more literary criticism and theory devoted to various aspects oftranslation—much of it produced by critics and theorists who are not themselves translators—wewould like to ask: What is the place of the literary translator in contemporarytranslation studies? What can the practicing translator add to translation criticism thatacademic observers of her activity cannot? And should literary translators band together toproduce their own version of translation studies?Esther Allen:Susan Bernofsky:Bill Johnston:Sean Cotter:Peter Bush:ModeratorModerator“Praxis in Literary Translation: Translators as Reflective Practitioners”“The Usefulness of Talking about Translation”“Translators As Scholars of Translation”saturday (cont.)3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Translating Spanish-Language Poetics(Auditorium)Beyond the specific linguistic issues at play in the translation of poetry from Spanish toEnglish and English to Spanish, tradition-specific textual features such as voice, diction,tone, register, rhythm, narrativity, and metrics can present even greater challenges to renderingsthat attempt poetic fidelity in the target language. The panelists will explore theseand other factors involved in translating modern, mostly free-verse poetry from and intoEnglish with examples from their recent work.Gary Racz:Jonathan Cohen:Marta López Luaces:Mark Statman:“Translating Narrativity and Humor in the Poetry of Eduardo Chirinos”“Translating Cardenal: The Challenge of the Poetics of Everyday Speech”“Translating Syllogism, Homonyms, and Rhythm inRobert Duncan’s Work”Translating Across the Century: The Case of José María Hinojosa”3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Bilingual Readings X: Miscellaneous(Green Room)3:00 Roger Greenwald Christina Hesselholdt (f) Denmark (Danish)3:15 Ed Morin Yousef el Qedra (p) Gaza (Arabic)3:30 Lisa Bradford Juan Gelman (p) Argentina (Spanish)3:45 Daniela Hurezanu Hubert Haddad (f) Tunisia (French)4:00 Leah Zazulyer Israel Emiot (p) Poland (Yiddish)4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Roundtable: The Translator’s Preface: Why it Matters & How to Make it Count(West Parlor)The translator’s preface is an opportunity. It lets the translator position a writer in the world,and introduces that writer to English-speaking readers. But unfortunately, not all translatorstake full advantage of the possibilities of the preface. So, what makes a good foreword,or afterword, anyway? What are some memorable recent prefaces?Aviya Kushner | Jason Grunebaum28