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Dr. Dror Abend- David teaches at the Department of Languages, Literatures 
and Cultures at the University of Florida. His first book was published in 2003 
by Peter Lang under the title: “Scorned my Nation:” A Comparison of Trans-
lations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. His 
 second book, Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, was 
published in 2014 (soft cover 2016; reviewed in Delos 32) with Bloomsbury 
Academic Publishing. His third book, Representing Translation: Languages, 
Translation, and Translators in Contemporary Media, came out with Blooms-
bury in January 2019 (reviewed in this issue). Dror has published articles on 
translation in relation to media, drama, literature, and Jewish culture. His 
email address is da2137@nyu . edu. He is a Delos board member and occasional 
contributor.

Edward Jordan Barger is a Philadelphia- based translator from Norwegian 
and French. He has worked in Norway at the Ivar Aasen Center in Ørsta. He 
has translated Sigbjørn Obstfelder’s 1894 novel The Cross.

Arno Bohlmeijer is a poet and novelist writing in English and Dutch, 
winner of the Charlotte Köhler Grant, runner- up for the 2018 Gabo Prize, 
finalist for the 2018 Poetry Matters Project, published in five countries. 
Notably, his poems were included in Universal Oneness: The Anthology 
of Magnum Opus Poems from around the World, 2019. Publishers Weekly 
commented on some of his previous work: “Relishing the subtle beauty. 
Life- affirming.”

He is the winner of a 2021 PEN America Grant to finish his novel for 
children.

Xisheng Chen, a Chinese American, is an ESL grammarian, lexicologist, lin-
guist, translator and educator. His educational background includes: top 
scorer in the English subject in the National College Entrance Examination 
of Jiangsu Province, a BA and an MA from Fudan University, Shanghai, China 
(exempted from the National Graduate School Entrance Examination owing 
to excellent BA test scores), and a Mandarin Healthcare Interpreter Certifi-
cate from the City College of San Francisco, CA, USA. His working history 
includes: translator for Shanghai TV Station, Evening English News, Lecturer 



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at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, Adjunct Professor at the Departments 
of English and Social Sciences of Trine University (formerly Tri- State Uni-
versity), Angola, Indiana, notary public, and contract high- tech translator for 
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, California, USA. As a translator 
for over three decades, he has published a lot of translations in various fields 
in newspapers and journals in China and abroad. A set of three poems co- 
translated by him and Chen Du was a finalist in the 2020 Gabo Prize for Lit-
erature in Translation & Multilingual Texts.

Cynthia L. Chennault is an associate professor emerita of Chinese lan-
guage and literature at the University of Florida. She researches the poetry 
and social history of the Six Dynasties (220–589). A recent publication is the 
chapter on poetry for the Cambridge History of China’s volume about that 
period. She was guest editor for a Delos issue on Chinese poetry (vol. 10, 
nos. 1– 2; 1997).

Stanley Corngold is professor emeritus of German and comparative litera-
ture at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences. He has published widely on modern German writers (e.g., Dil-
they, Nietzsche, Musil, Kraus, Mann, Benjamin, Adorno, among others) but 
for the most part has been translating and writing on the work of Franz Kafka. 
Having completed an intellectual biography of the philosopher Walter 
Kaufmann (reviewed in Delos 34.1), he will now publish a book at Princeton 
in 2022, titled The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton.

Chen Du is a voting member of the American Translators Association and a 
member of the Translators Association of China. She holds an MS in biophys-
ics from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (SUNY at Buffalo) and a Master’s 
Degree in radio physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She revised 
more than eight chapters of the Chinese translation of the biography of Helen 
Snow, Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in Revolutionary China. In 
the United States, her translations have appeared in Columbia Journal, Lunch 
Ticket, Pilgrimage, The Los Angeles Review. She has published an essay in 
The Dead Mule and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Levitate, 
American Writers Review, and elsewhere; her poetry chapbook was published 
by The Dead Mule online. A set of three poems co- translated by her and 
Xisheng Chen was a finalist in the 2020 Gabo Prize for Literature in Transla-
tion & Multilingual Texts. She is also the author of the book Successful Per-
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Janet J. Graham earned her PhD in English from the University of Hawaii 
at Manoa after defending her dissertation analyzing Vietnamese diasporic lit-
erature through the frameworks of critical refugee studies and relationality in 
the fall of 2019. While completing her dissertation, she served as reviews 
editor for Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. She is an assistant pro-
fessor in the English department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Alexis Levitin has published forty- seven books in translation, mostly poetry 
from Portugal, Brazil, and Ecuador. In addition to Astrid Cabral’s Cage (Host 
Publications, 2008), his translations from Brazil include five books by Salgado 
Maranhão, as well as Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm (New Directions, 1989). 
Translations from Portugal include eleven collections of poetry by Eugenio 
de Andrade and Rosa Alice Branco’s Cattle of the Lord (Milkweed Editions, 
2016). Poetry from Ecuador is represented by Ana Minga’s Tobacco Dogs (Bit-
ter Oleander Press, 2013), Santiago Vizcaino’s Destruction in the Afternoon 
(Dialogos Books, 2015), and Carmen Váscones’ Outrage (White Dwarf Edi-
tions, 2018). He has served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Oporto 
and Coimbra, Portugal, The Catholic University in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and 
the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil and has held translation 
residencies at Banff, Canada, Straelen, Germany (twice), and the Rockefeller 
Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. He is the founder of the bilingual 
reading sessions at the annual conference of the American Literary Transla-
tors Association.

Sharon Fish Mooney is the author of Bending Toward Heaven: Poems After 
the Art of Vincent van Gogh (Wipf and Stock/Resource Publications, 2016) 
and editor of A Rustling and Waking Within (OPA Press, 2017), an anthology 
of ekphrastic poetry on art located in Ohio museums. She won the inaugural 
Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry. Sharon has lectured on Van Gogh and 
poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and has read her poetry in university venues in 
the United States, Canada, France, and the Netherlands. Her poems have 
appeared in various journals including Rattle, RUMINATE, First Things, Mod-
ern Age, The Lyric, The Lost Country, String Poet, The Ekphrastic Review, 
The Evansville Review and two art museum anthologies. Her translations of 
French have been published in Transference and Common Threads. Sharon 
was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2018) to 
focus on ekphrastic poetry and translations. She teaches nursing courses online 
for Regis University, Denver, Colorado and Indiana Wesleyan. Her PhD is 
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Wendy Pfeffer is emerita professor of French at the University of Louisville 
and a visiting scholar in Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylva-
nia. Her several books and numerous articles have discussed different genres 
and aspects of medieval French and Occitan literature. Her most recent book, 
Le festin du troubadour: Nourriture, société et littérature en Occitanie 
(1100– 1500), considers the culinary culture of medieval southern France and 
the literary uses of food vocabulary; this work was supported by a Fulbright 
grant to France (2011). She has also published on Renaissance, modern, and 
contemporary Occitan literature and culture. Her current research is on 
Renaissance physician Jean Bruyérin- Champier and his culinary interests, 
work funded by a second Fulbright grant to France (2018), as well as medi-
eval culinary history. She has been recognized by the French government as 
an officier in the Order of Arts and Letters.

G. J. Racz is professor of English, philosophy and languages at LIU Brook-
lyn, review editor for Translation Review, and a former president of the Amer-
ican Literary Translators Association (ALTA). His translations of plays by 
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Félix Lope de Vega, Miguel Cervantes, and Sor 
Juana Inés de la Cruz appeared in The Golden Age of Spanish Drama: A Nor-
ton Critical Edition (2018).

Emrah Sahin (PhD McGill University) is a transnational historian focusing 
on the intersection of political forces and social exchanges within and beyond 
national borders. He is the author of Faithful Encounters: Authorities and 
American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire (2018). As the University of 
Florida’s Global Fellow (2021), he started a new major project that charts a 
recent massacre in a remote Kurdish village. He is also writing a critical man-
uscript about six travelers who told Muslims about Europe and America. 
Sahin is a senior lecturer at the University of Florida’s Center for European 
Studies, where he is teaching Turkish language, history, and culture.

Olivia Santovetti is associate professor in Italian at the University of Leeds. 
Her main fields of research are the theory of the novel, narratology, and the 
history of reading. She has published on Elena Ferrante, Calvino, Gadda, 
Pirandello, De Roberto, Neera, Dossi, Tarchetti and on the reception of Lau-
rence Sterne in Italy (she edited and translated a selection of his Sermons for 
Signorelli). She has published the book Digression: A Narrative Strategy in 
the Italian Novel (2007) and edited the special issue of The Italianist, Self- 
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representation of reading and readers in the nineteenth- century Italian 
novel; her project, “The woman reader in Italian literature and visual arts in 
the fin de siècle period,” was funded by the British Academy.

R. Allen Shoaf, Alumni Professor of English, emeritus, at the University of 
Florida, is the author of more than a dozen books and nearly 100 papers and 
reviews, twice a holder of fellowships of the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, founding editor of the prize- winning journal Exemplaria: A Jour-
nal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, which he edited from 
1987 until 2008, and the winner of six teaching awards during his career at 
UF, including “University- wide Teacher of the Year” in 1992. He has been 
concerned with problems of translation throughout his academic career, as 
can be seen, for example, in his 1990 essay, “Literary Theory, Medieval Stud-
ies, and the Crisis of Difference.” He is the author also of several books of 
poetry, most recently Language to Live In (2019). He maintains a website at 
alshoaf . com where he regularly posts new poems.

Janna Tamargo is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Flor-
ida and study coordinator for a research project gathering perspectives on 
authenticity and gender in gastronomical experiences. She has spent the last 
three years researching authentic food in Istanbul, Turkey, and ethnic- 
themed restaurants in the United States. Janna fell in love with language in 
her teens after she was an exchange student in France during high school. 
She has traveled to over thirty countries and speaks some of five languages. 
Currently, she splits her time between Florida and Turkey. She is also the 
current president of the Florida Society of the Social Sciences. Her research 
interests include the sociology of food, authenticity, and ethnicity in food 
culture.

Sergey Tyulenev is the director of the MA in translation studies at the School 
of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK. He holds a 
PhD in linguistics (2000, Moscow State University) and a PhD in translation 
studies (2009, University of Ottawa). His primary academic interest is trans-
lation as a social activity. He is the author of six books on translation, the 
most recent being Translation in the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2018).

Patricia Worth is a literary translator with a Master of Translation Studies. 
Her published translations include George Sand’s novel, Spiridion (2015), two 
bilingual books of New Caledonian stories by Claudine Jacques (2017, 2018), 



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a small collection by Eugène- Melchior de Vogüé, Winter Tales (2018), and a 
translation of Jean Lorrain’s Stories to Read by Candlelight (2019). Several 
translated stories have appeared in journals in Australia, New Caledonia 
and the U.S., including Bewildering Stories, Sunspot Lit, Delos, and The 
AALITRA Review. Patricia writes about her translations at patriciaworth-
translator . com.


