B6: �The Translatress in her Person Speaks:� Women Translators and the Art of Cultural Mediation

Seminar Leader: Anna Barker, University of Iowa

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM� � 12:30 PM, Westminster 1

Sabine Golz, University of Iowa: �The Secret Fingering of Language: Toward a Poetics of Translation�

Luise von Flotow, University of Ottawa, Canada: �The Bible in Subjective Mode: Julia Evelina Smith, Translator of the Word�

Nicky Agate, University of Iowa: �Internal Wrangle: How to Translate Le Nom Du Pere?�

M. Abasuddin Tapadar, Jawaharlal Nehru University: �Translation as Manipulation: Gayatri Spivak�s Translating/Translations of Mahasweta Devi�

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Westminster 1

Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Northern Michigan University: �(De)Genderizing Perfectibility: Romantic Women Reformists Translate Male Ideas on Education�

Anna Barker, University of Iowa: �Translating Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot�s German Connection�

Aletha Stahl, Earlham College: �Reading Women Who Translate with Men: Annette Smith, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, and the Production of Martinican Difference�

Marta Wilkinson, University of California � Santa Barbara: �The World is Not Enough - Victoria Ocampo�s (Re)Solution to Cultural Misunderstanding�

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Westminster 1

Aviya Kushner, University of Iowa: �Sexy Cafe Girls Vs. Baking Grandmas: Gender Politics and Contemporary Israeli Women�s Poetry in Translation�

Mary Delle LeBeau, University of Southern California � Los Angeles: �The First Lady of Russian Letters: Anna Bunina�s (1774-1828) Writings and Translations�

Tom Dolack, University of Oregon:���� �A Dream of Light in the Eternal Darkness: The Translations of Karolina Pavlova�

Julia Zarankin, Princeton University: �Transposing Folklore: Marina Tsvetaeva�s French Autotranslations�