Event: Lectures with Prof. Susan Bassnett, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
Date: Wednesday 3 March and Friday 5 March 2021
Time: 18:00 (Session 1) and 10:00 (Session 2)
Venue: Online through Zoom
The Department of Translation, Terminology & Interpreting Studies of the Faculty of Arts will be hosting Prof. Susan Bassnett, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Warwick. She will be giving two guest lectures via Zoom to UM staff and students. All those who have a university email address may attend. The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday 3 March 2021 at 18:00 - 'Detective Fiction in Translation: Shifting Patterns of Reception'. Registration online.
Friday 5 March 2021 at 10:00 - 'Why is it so Important to Study Translation?'. Registration online.
Prior registration is required. Clicking the links above will automatically provide the link for the lectures.
Susan Bassnett is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. She has authored over 20 books, among which Translation Studies (first published in 1980) and Comparative Literature (1993) have become required reading in their respective fields worldwide. Her most recent books are Reflections on Translation (2011) and Translation (2014). She is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Linguists, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Academia Europaea. In recent years she has acted as judge of a number of major literary prizes including the Times/Stephen Spender Poetry in Translation Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the IMPAC Dublin prize. She is also known for her writing in national newspapers, for her translations and for her poetry. Her collection of poems Exchanging Lives: Poems and Translations (2002) includes creative translations from Alejandra Pizarnik.
