Notes on Contributors

Transference, Dec 2016

Published on 02/03/17

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Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Part of the Classical Literature Philology Commons East Asian Languages Societies Commons European Languages Societies Commons French Francophone Language Literature Commons German Language Literature Commons Linguistics Commons Modern Languages Commons Modern Literature Commons Near Eastern Languages Societies Commons Poetry Commons Reading Language Commons the Translation Studies Commons Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/transference - Houssem Ben Lazreg is currently a Ph.D. student and a teaching assistant for Arabic/French in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. He was a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant of Arabic at Michigan State University from 2010–2011. He holds a Master of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Nazareth College of Rochester. Houssem has also taught Arabic, French, and English at different American institutions such as West Virginia University and Indiana University in Bloomington. In addition to teaching foreign languages, Houssem has been working as a freelance translator. His latest publication is the Arabic translation of a novel titled Screwballs by Catherine Mardon. His research interests include politics and translation, Middle Eastern graphic novels, and Islamist militant movements. Andrew Gudgel received a B.A. in Chinese from The Ohio State University and an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, Annapolis. He spent a decade-plus working for the U.S. government, mostly in U.S. embassies overseas, before becoming a freelance writer and translator. He is currently a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Carol Hayes is a senior lecturer in Japanese language and Japanese studies at the Australian National University, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in modern Japanese literature from the University of Sydney. Her research interests are broad, ranging from modern and contemporary Japanese literature and poetry to eLearning and Japanese teaching pedagogy. The poetry included here is part of the joint translation project of Japanese women’s poetry with Dr. Rina Kikuchi from Shiga University. George Held has translated more than 100 of Martial’s epigrams and published many of these translations in such journals as Circumference; Ezra; Natural Bridge; International Poetry Review; and Notre Dame Review, as well as in Martial Artist (Toad Press Translation Series, 2005). A ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he has published nineteen collections of his own poems, most recently in the chapbook Phased II (Poets Wear Prada, 2016). Rina Kikuchi is an associate professor at Shiga University, Japan, where she has been teaching English language, literature and cultural studies since 2003. She has a Ph.D. in contemporary Irish poetry from Chiba University, which included a period of research at Trinity College, Dublin; and an M.A. in comparative literary theories from University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include comparative literature and translation studies, with a current focus on the translation of Irish poetry written in English into Japanese, and research into the poetry of Sagawa Chika as a part of her second Ph.D. on Japanese modanizumu poetry at Australian National University. The poetry included here is part of the joint translation project of Japanese women’s poetry with Dr. Carol Hayes from the Australian National University. At age 20, Madeleine McDonald fell into translation by accident. When she was a novice translator with no formal qualifications, her first boss insisted she read the King James Bible for ten minutes on arrival at work, to improve her English. This unorthodox training was successful and she later worked as a translator, editor and precis-writer for international organisations. She co-translated a legal textbook, Sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands. Her own writing includes short stories, poetry and newspaper columns. Her third novel, A Shackled Inheritance, was published in 2016. Siobhan Meï is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. in Comparative Literature from La Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her translations and original poetry have appeared in carte blanche, The Adirondack Review, and Asymptote. Siobhan translates French, Haitian, and Belgian poetry and is currently co-translating a collection of poetry by North Korean defector Imu Baek. Her recent research projects use translation as a lens through which to consider the historical complexity and cultural specificity of the relationship between language and racial prejudice. Born in Shanghai, Hyacinthus Meredith currently lives in Sydney, Australia. His poetry has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, and his translations of poems from classical Chinese in Ezra and Clarion. He is currently working on articles on the po (...truncated)


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