2012 Conference Program - The University of Texas at Dallas

Rachel Galvin (PhD in Comparative Literature, PrincetonUniversity) is an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow atthe Humanities Center of The Johns Hopkins University. Anessay on the translation of poetry in the Americas is forthcomingin the Blackwell Companion to Translation Studies. Abook of her poems, Pulleys & Locomotion, was published in2009, and Hitting the Streets, her translation from the Frenchof Raymond Queneau, is forthcoming from Carcanet Pressin 2013. She is currently collaborating on a translation of theearly poetry of Oliverio Girondo.Edward Gauvin has received NEA, Fulbright, CNL, andALTA fellowships, as well as residencies from Ledig Houseand BILTC. Among his awards are the John Dryden Translationprize and the Science Fiction & Fantasy TranslationAward. His work has appeared in many literary journals,including Tin House, Conjunctions, Subtropics, and The SouthernReview. He also writes a bimonthly column on Frenchfantastical writers for Weird Fiction Review.Ted Genoways edited and translated The Selected Poems ofMiguel Hernandez. He is also author of Bullroarer and Anna,Washing, and the critical study Walt Whitman and the CivilWar. A Guggenheim fellow and six-time National MagazineAward winner as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, heis currently editor-at-large for OnEarth.Jill Gibian teaches translation at Eastern Oregon University.She is the editor of the anthology Argentina: A Traveler’sLiterary Companion, from Whereabouts Press. During spring2008, she had a Fulbright grant to conduct research for hernext anthology, Tango-Lit: Parodies of Passion, a compilationdedicated to the theme of tango in literature.John Givens is associate professor of Russian at the Universityof Rochester and the author of Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shukshin inSoviet Russian Culture (Northwestern UP), the co-translatorof Vasily Shukshin’s Stories from a Siberian Village (NorthernIllinois UP) and editor (since 1999) of the quarterly translationjournal Russian Studies in Literature.Laura Givens teaches elementary through advanced Russianlanguage courses. She is also the translator (with John Givens)of Vasily Shukshin’s Stories from a Siberian Village (NorthernIllinois UP). From 1997-2000 she was the translator for RussianStudies in Literature, a quarterly journal of translationsfrom the Russian literary press.Amalia Gladhart earned her PhD in Romance Studies fromCornell University and has published widely on contemporaryLatin American theater and narrative. She is the translatorof two novels by Ecuadorian writer Alicia Yánez Cossío,Beyond the Islands (UNO Press) and The Potbellied Virgin (Uof Texas Press). Her translation of Angélica Gorodischer’snovel-in-stories, Trafalgar, will be published by Small BeerPress. A fiction chapbook, Detours, winner of the 2011 BurnsideReview Fiction Chapbook Competition, is forthcomingfrom Burnside Review Press. She is professor of Spanish atthe University of Oregon.Roger Greenwald has won the CBC Literary Award twice(for poetry and travel literature). His books include ConnectingFlight (poems); North in the World: Selected Poems of RolfJacobsen, winner of the Lewis Galantière Award; and mostrecently, Picture World, an English version of a book-lengthpoem in twenty-four parts by the Danish poet Niels Frank(BookThug).Anne Greeott is a graduate assistant at the University ofArkansas and works independently as a literary translatorspecializing in Italian and Spanish. She also translates in thescientific, engineering, and medical fields.Derek Gromadzki received his MFA in the spring of 2012from the University of Iowa, where he is currently a PresidentialGraduate Fellow in comparative literature. His work hasappeared in such journals as Black Warrior Review and AmericanLetters & Commentary, among others, and he has recentlyfinished a translation of Edoardo Sanguineti’s Laborintus.Jennifer Grotz is the author of The Needle and Cusp and translatorof Psalms of All My Days by Patrice de La Tour du Pin,forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon. She is poetry editor ofOpen Letter Books, an associate professor at the Universityof Rochester, and assistant director of the Bread Loaf WritersConference.Jason Grunebaum has worked as an interpreter and delegatefor the International Committee of the Red Crossin Kashmir, Kosovo, and East Timor. He is the translatorfrom Hindi of Uday Prakash’s novel The Girl with the GoldenParasol (Penguin India; forthcoming, Yale University Press),Prakash’s volume of novellas entitled The Walls of Delhi (Universityof Western Australia Press), and Manzoor Ahtesham’sThe Tale of the Missing Man (with Ulrike Stark). He has beenawarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in Translation, aPEN Translation Fund grant, and an ALTA fellowship. Hisfiction has appeared in One Story, Web Conjunctions, SouthwestReview, and Third Coast. Salman Rushdie selected his “MariaXimenes da Costa de Carvalho Perreira” as a short story ofdistinction. He is Senior Lecturer in Hindi at the Universityof Chicago, where he also is a member of the Committee onCreative Writing.Konstantin Gurevich is a graduate of Moscow State Universityand the University of Texas at Austin. Helen Andersonstudied Russian language and literature at McGill Universityin Montreal. A husband-and-wife team, they retranslatedparticipants (cont.)39