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Baba Badji

Baba Badji

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Assistant Professor of French & English (Creative Writing)
baba.badji@rutgers.edu
translation theory and practice in the humanities; craft and poetics of translation; Négritude approach to translation studies; invisibility within; literary translation in context
Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Karen Elizabeth Bishop

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Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Director, Translation Studies Initiative kebishop@rutgers.edu
theories and histories of translation; radical translation; self-translation; translational poethics; philosophy and translation
Jae Won Edward Chung

Jae Won Edward Chung

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Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures
jchung@alc.rutgers.edu
intermediality; modern and contemporary literature in translation; politics of translation; literature as translingual practice
Miguel Jiménez

Miguel Jiménez

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Professor of Spanish
Director of Program in Spanish Translation & Interpreting jimenez.miguel@rutgers.edu
translation theory; translation technologies; corpus-based translation studies; translation training; translation and cognition
Ryan Kernan

Ryan Kernan

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Associate Professor of English
rjkernan@english.rutgers.edu
history of translation; diaspora and translation; poetics and translation; theory of translation
David Kurnick

David Kurnick

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Professor of English
david.kurnick@rutgers.edu
translation theory; Latin America; translation and anachronism
Jeffrey Lawrence

Jeffrey Lawrence

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Associate Professor of English
jl1977@english.rutgers.edu
literary translation; Latin American literature in translation; US literature in Spanish
Michael Levine

Michael Levine

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Distinguished Professor of German
mglevine@greell.rutgers.edu
translation and transference; translation and psychoanalysis; translational slips and parapraxes; multilingual poetry; Benjamin and translatability
Preetha Mani

Preetha Mani

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Associate Professor of AMESALL
Director, South Asian Studies Program preetha.mani@rutgers.edu
theory and practice of translation; history of translation; multilingualism and translation; gender and translation
Nela Navarro

Nela Navarro

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Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Director of the Rutgers English Language Institute nnavarro@english.rutgers.edu
Anjali Nerlekar

Anjali Nerlekar

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Associate Professor of South Asian Literatures
Chair of AMESALL nerlekar@amesall.rutgers.edu
Translation Studies; multilingualisms and translation; translation and South Asian literatures; theory of translation
Imani Owens

Imani Owens

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Associate Professor of English
iowens@english.rutgers.edu
performance; empire; blackness; experimentalism/aesthetics
Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker

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Professor of French and Comparative Literature
acparker@french.rutgers.edu
translation and language philosophies; translation and media studies; untranslatability
Laura Ramírez Polo

Laura Ramírez Polo

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Coordinator of Spanish Program in Translation & Interpreting
Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish ramirez.laura@rutgers.edu
translation pedagogy; medical translation; translation technologies; community translation
Stéphane Robolin

Stéphane Robolin

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Associate Professor of English
srobolin@rutgers.edu
theory and practice of translation; transnationalism, diaspora, and translation; African literatures
Marcy Schwartz

Marcy Schwartz

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Professor of Spanish
mschwartz@spanport.rutgers.edu
translation in/and Latin America; translation and exile/displacement; translation as postcolonial/decolonial strategy; visual culture and translation
Samah Selim

Samah Selim

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Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
sselim@amesall.rutgers.edu
translation politics; translation as critique; adaptation & radical culture
Richard Serrano

Richard Serrano

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Professor of French and Comparative Literature
rserrano@french.rutgers.edu
literary translation; intercultural transmission; translation and China, Korea, and the Arab world
Weijie Song

Weijie Song

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Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures
wjsong@alc.rutgers.edu
translation and Sinophone literature; cultural translation; (un)translatability and multimedia
Thomas Stephens

Thomas Stephens

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Professor of Spanish
tstephens@spanport.rutgers.edu
lexicography
James Swenson

James Swenson

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Professor of French and Comparative Literature
james.swenson@rutgers.edu
French; political philosophy;
history of translation; style
Alessandro Vettori

Alessandro Vettori

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Distinguished Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of Italian vettori@rutgers.edu
translation and editing; translation and publishing; Other Voices of Italy (RUP series)
Xiaojue Wang

Xiaojue Wang

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Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Acting Chair, Comparative Literature xw249@alc.rutgers.edu
translation and the cultural cold war; translation and transmedia studies; multilingualism and (un)translatability; gender, diaspora, and translation in global Asias
Azzan Yadin-Israel

Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics
ayadin@jewishstudies.rutgers.edu
biblical translation; language contact; translation and knowledge dissemination
Young-mee Yu Cho

Young-mee Yu Cho

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Professor of Korean Language and Culture, Asian Languages and Cultures
yucho@alc.rutgers.edu