The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation presents:
Lawrence Venuti – “Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation”
Wednesday, March 30, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum
4th floor Klapper Hall, QC campus
Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is the author of The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation (2nd ed., 2008) and The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (1998) and the editor of The Translation Studies Reader (2nd ed., 2004). His translations include the anthology, Italy: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (2003), Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel, The Goodbye Kiss (2006), and Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems (2009), which won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize.
A reception will follow and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
