Translation Review - The University of Texas at Dallas

Notes on Contributors
Walter Andrews taught Turkish language and literature in
the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
at the University of Washington from 1968 to 1992. He
now continues his relationship with the department as a
research professor. He has published widely on Ottoman
Turkish literature and culture both in the United States
and Turkey. His publications include several books, edited
works, translations, editions of Ottoman Texts, and many
articles. His latest book, The Age of Beloveds, co-authored
with Mehmet Kalpakli, will be appearing from Duke
University Press in February of 2005. He is presently the
co-director of the Ottoman Texts Archive and Ottoman
Historical Dictionary projects.
Serdar Arat is a professor of art at Concordia College and
the director/curator of the Concordia Gallery at the same
institution. He holds a B.A. from Boğaziçi University, in
Istanbul, and an M.F.A. from the State University of New
York at Albany. His work has been featured in more than
a dozen one-person exhibitions (with multiple reviews in
the New York Times), including the Monique Goldstrom
Gallery in New York, Gallery 1756 in Chicago, and Galeri
Nev in Istanbul-Ankara, as well as appearing in more
than thirty group exhibitions at such venues as the Bronx
Museum and Art in General in New York, Sothebyʼs in
London, and Galerie Trigone in Liege, Belgium. A number
of his works are held in public and corporate collections.
Ruth Christie studied English language and literature at
the University of St. Andrews. She taught for two years in
Turkey and later studied Turkish language and literature
at London University. For many years she taught English
literature to American undergraduates resident in London.
With Saliha Paker she translated a Turkish novel by Latife
Tekin (Marion Boyars, 1993) and, in collaboration with
Richard McKane, a selection of the poems of Oktay Rifat
(Rockingham Press, 1993) and a major collection of Nazım
Hikmetʼs poetry (Anvil Press, 2002). In 2004 In the Temple
of a Patient God, her translations from the Turkish of Bejan
Matur, was published by Arc Visible Poets. Translations
of several short stories and poems by other Turkish writers
have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Britain and
Turkey.
Vincent Czyz is the author of Adrift in a Vanishing City,
a collection of short fi ction. He contributes book reviews
to RainTaxi, WBUR and the American Book Review. A
resident of Istanbul, Turkey, for fi ve years, he currently
resides in Vineland, New Jersey.
Clifford Endres and Selhan Savcıgil both live in Istanbul
and teach at Kadir Has University. Their translations have
appeared in Agenda, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly
West, Seneca Review, Near East Review, The Turkish PEN,
and other journals.
Edward Foster is the author of several books of criticism,
literary history, and poetry, most recently Mahrem: Things
Men Should Do for Men. He is the founding editor of the
journal Talisman and of Talisman House Publishers. He
directs the division of humanities and social sciences at the
Stevens Institute of Technology.
Erdağ Göknar teaches Turkish language and cultural
history at Duke University. He is an award-winning
translator of literary fi ction, and his recent translations
include My Name is Red (Knopf, 2001) and Earth and
Ashes (Harcourt, 2002). He is currently translating A. H.
Tanpınarʼs A Mind at Peace.
Talât S. Halman is professor and chair of the Department
of Turkish Literature, Bilkent University (Ankara).
Formerly he was on the faculties of Columbia University,
Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania
and professor at New York University, where he also served
as chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Literatures. In addition to many volumes of original
poetry and scholarly articles, he has published Turkish
translations of works by William Faulkner, Mark Twain,
Rumi, Shakespeare (Complete Sonnets), et al, and English
translations of Ottoman poetry and contemporary Turkish
literature.
Suat Karantay is a professor in the Department of
Translation and Interpreting at Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in comparative
literature and his Ph.D. in English and American literature.
His current areas of interest are literary translation and
contemporary Turkish literature. He maintains an extensive
website on contemporary Turkish literature at
www.turkish-lit.boun.edu.tr.
Mel Kenne teaches in the American Culture and Literature
Department of Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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