IJS/CLLC Workshop: "Poetry Translation Across Languages"

The Institute for Japanese Studies and the CLLC T&I Program jointly present a T&I Professionalization Workshop

"Poetry Translation Across Languages"

Moderator:
Prof. Jeffrey Angles
Western Michigan University

Presenters:
Jorge Clavo Abbass (German/Spanish, GLL); Angela Acosta (Spanish, SPPO); Tetyana Dovbnya (Russian, SEELC); Alex Foreman (Arabic among others/NELC); Maya McOmie (Japanese, MFA Program/English); Jenn Marie Nunes (Chinese, DEALL); Lindsey Stirek (Japanese, DEALL).

Abstract: In this workshop, graduate students from different departments across the Arts and Humanities at OSU are presenting samples of their own translations of poetry from and into the diverse languages that they are proficient in. Prof. Jeffrey Angles, an award-winning poet, translator, and professor of Japanese literature, will moderate the discussion. The goal of the workshop is to have an opportunity to receive and offer feedback, heighten one's awareness of the potential of particular language pairs, expand one's repertoire of translation strategies and tactics, learn about publication possibilities, and possibly constitute an ongoing community of practitioners of literary translation drawn from the ranks of the presenters and the audience alike. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members are all welcome.  

Moderator:
Jeffrey Angles is a professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. He is a prominent translator of modern Japanese literature, with several volumes of Japanese literature in translation to his name. His book Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako (University of California Press) received both the 2009 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese Literature and the 2011 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Other translation projects have earned grants from the PEN America and the National Endowment for the Arts, including his most recent accomplishment of receiving a 2020 Literature Translation Fellowship from the NEA. He has led translation courses and workshops at the University of Tokyo, the British Centre for the Art of Translation, and The Ohio State University. He is also a poet in his own right. His book of poetry written in Japanese, Watashi no hizukehenkōsen (My International Date Line, 2016) won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, making Angles the first American ever to win this prestigious prize for a book of poetry.