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Translation Awards

2019 Translation Studies Awards

Graduate Translation Awards

Joscha Kloeppel, German and Scandinavian,  “A Translation of Sasa Stanišić’s Fallensteller

Kumiko McDowell, East Languages and Literatures,Attend the Graduate Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography at the University of Cambridge

Maya Larson and Daria Smirnova, Comparative Literature, collaborative project, “Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Unfinished Conversations”

Nadezhda Vikulina, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, “Translating Contemporary Muslim-American Poetry”

Ahmad Nadalizadeh, Comparative Literature,“The Middle East Trilogy: War, Love, Solitude (2019)”

 

Undergraduate Translation Award

Christine Carraro, Romance Languages, “The Worth of Women 2.0”

 

2018 Translation Studies Awards

Graduate Summer Translation Awards

Nadège Lejeune: “Translingualism in Littérature-monde and World Literature: An Analysis of Lydie Salvayre’s Pas Pleurer

Murad Jalilov and Peter Orte: “Translating Sayat-Nova’s Azerbaijani Poems”

 

Undergraduate Translation Awards

Elmira Louie: “A Woman’s Voice: Strategies of Feminist Translation Practices in Spanish, Persian, and Turkish Poetry”

Jeremiah Young: “The Lay of the Horned Siegfried” (translation of a German 16th-century epic lay poem)

 

 

2017 Translation Studies Awards

Graduate Summer Translation Awards

Olga Sanchez: “Astucias por heredar un sobrino a su tío: Tricks to Inherit.”

Natalie Brenner and Eva Serfozo (collaborative project): A translation of key chapters of Alice Zeniter’s novel Sombre dimanche (2013)

Undergraduate Translation Awards

Sarah Eddy: “Translation of the Poetry of Argentinian Alfonsina Storni.”

Delaney Swink: “Cross-cultural Feminism: Translating the work of Rosa Emilia del Pilar Alcayaga Toro.”

 

2016 Translation Studies Awards

Graduate Summer Translation Awards

Sheela Hadjivassiliou: “A Translation of Ananda Devi’s Le sari vert

Cristina Carnemolla“’N’tu mezzo du camminu […]’ of the Translation:

The Sicilian Translation of the Divine Comedy

 

Special Translation Project Awards

Elizabeth Howard: “The Ghost of Translation in James Macpherson’s Ossian Cycle”

Kevin Regan-Maglione“’In Italia sono tutti maschi’: Graphic novel as queer testimony”

 

 

 2015 Translation Studies Awards

Ahmad Nadalizadeh (Comparative Literature), “Garous Abdolmalekian’s Poetry”

Eva Hoffmann and Alexis Smith (German and Scandinavian), “Elsa Asenijeff’s Unschuld: Ein modernes Mädchenbuch” (joint project)

Michelle Kyoko Crowson (Comparative Literature), “Girlish Fictions: Translating Impure Identities in Akiko Akazome’s The Maiden’s Betrayal

Brandon Rigby (Romance Languages), “Polysemy of the Space Between: Self-translation in Contemporary Transatlantic Bilingual Poetry”

Maya Larson (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies), “Varlam Shalamov’s Atomic Poem

 

 

The Translation Studies grants are awarded each spring by the Oregon Center for Translation Studies with the support of the UO Global Studies Institute