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Reviewers 

Dror Abend-David teaches in the Department of Languages, 
Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida. His first book, 
based on his dissertation, was published in 2003 by Peter Lang under 
the title, “Scorned my Nation:” A Comparison of Translations of The 
Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. His new book 
is, Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Bloomsbury 
Academic Publishing, 2014. Abend-David earned his Ph.D. in 
Comparative Literature from New York University in 2001. He has also 
published articles on translation in relation to media, drama, and 
Jewish culture. His e-mail address is d.abend.1@alumni.nyu.edu 

Diane Arnson Svarlien is a verse translator and Classicist living in 
Lexington, Kentucky. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas 
at Austin in 1991. She has published two collections of translations of 
the plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus (2007), and 
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (2012), both from Hackett 
Publishing. Her next collection, also with Hackett, will be Ion, Helen, 
Orestes (2016). Her translations of Euripides’ plays have been widely 
performed in theaters, and her translations of poems by Sappho, 
Semonides, Theocritus, Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus and 
Ovid have appeared in various journals and anthologies. 

Sylvie Blum-Reid is associate professor of French and film at the 
University of Florida. She is the author of East-West Encounters. 
Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature (London: Wallflower Press, 2003). 
Her research and teaching interests include literature, travel narratives, 
photography, 1930s cinema and culture in France, expatriate female 
artists in the interwar period, culinary practices, and creative writing. 
She just published Traveling in French Cinema (Palgrave/MacMillan, 
2015). She is a member of ALCS, a group of writers in Great Britain. 

William Calin, Ph.D. Yale 1961, is Graduate Research Professor at 
the University of Florida. He has taught or had grants at Paris, Poitiers, 
Montpellier, Rennes, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Toronto. He works in 
medieval French literature; French poetry from the Renaissance to the 
present; Franco-British literary relations; and modern literature in 
Breton, Occitan, and Scots. He has authored 12 books, 120 articles 
and chapters, and 230 papers and lectures. His most recent volume is 
The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Early Literature 

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of Scotland. Current projects include books on eighteenth-century 
French poetry, Occitan from 1500 to 1900, and medievalism. 

Andrew Clark is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Classics at the 
University of Florida. He is currently working on his dissertation on 
Solon the Athenian Lawgiver, poet, and sage. He has taught Latin at 
all undergraduate levels at UF, and he tutors high school and college 
students in both Latin and ancient Greek. Aside from doctoral work, 
poetry is his life and love, and he enjoys reading Star Wars books in 
his free time. He may be contacted at andperclark@ufl.edu 

Richard J. Gray II is assistant professor of French at Ashland 
University in Ohio. His fields of study include interdisciplinary 
approaches to French literary studies, the Francophone world from 
colonization to independence, and performance art. He is the author of 
Francophone African Poetry and Drama: A Cultural History since the 
1960s (2014) and a collection of articles and book chapters. His 
current project, entitled An Artist and Her Son: A Portrait of Suzanne 
Valadon and Maurice Utrillo, explores the life and work of Suzanne 
Valadon and her son, Maurice Utrillo, the landscape artist of 
Montmartre. 

Benjamin Hebblethwaite, currently Associate Professor at the 
University of Florida, has a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from Indiana 
University (2007). He is the lead author of Vodou Songs in Haitian 
Creole and English (Temple U. Press 2012) and Yon sezon 
matchyavèl/Une saison en enfer (L’Harmattan 2010), with Jacques 
Pierre. He has published articles on Haitian Creole historical 
linguistics, language policy in Haitian Creole Scrabble and literacy, and 
bilingualism among Haitian Americans in Miami. He is completing, with 
Richard Freeman, a book on Vodou songs, including photographs, 
commentary, and compact discs, entitled, Roots of the Fig Tree: 
Vodou Music and Culture in Haiti. He is currently working on research 
projects in Arabic Linguistics and cultural influences in contemporary 
varieties of urban vernacular Dutch, French and German. 

Will Kesling has conducted hundreds of choral ensembles and forty-
three professional symphony  in orchestras in thirty countries. His 
talents for weaving together text and music, chorus and orchestra have 
garnered him international respect. His engagements took place in 
Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as 
well as in concert halls internationally. For the past thirteen years, 

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Kesling has served as the Director of Choral Activities at the University 
of Florida and the Gainesville Master Chorale and Philharmonic 
Orchestra. His college choirs have received international attention at 
both national and divisional conventions at the American Choral 
Directors Association. In 2004, Kesling was awarded the Ronald 
Reagan Medal for “contributions to the cultural life of the citizenry.” His 
translation of the Requiem text was the basis of the performance on 
April 18, 2015 of Verdi’s Manzoni Requiem in the Phillips Center for 
the Performing Arts in Gainesville. 

Marco Alexandre de Oliveira is Adjunct Professor of Letters at the 
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He earned both a 
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and a M.A. in Romance Languages 
and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He 
has published translations in Machado de Assis Magazine: Brazilian 
Literature in Translation and in Zundi: Revista de Poesia & Debates. 
Under the pseudonym of Gringo Carioca, author of Reflexos e 
reflexões (2014), his works have appeared in literary anthologies, 
poetry magazines, and art exhibits in both Brazil and the United States. 

Charles A. Perrone is Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian 
Culture and Literatures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese 
Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Masters of 
Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985 (1989), Seven Faces: 
Brazilian Poetry since Modernism (1996), and Brazil, Lyric, and the 
Americas (2010). In addition to many articles and book chapters on 
Brazilian literature and popular music, he has translated numerous 
contemporary Brazilian writers, most notably poets Augusto de 
Campos and Paulo Leminski. His own poetry has appeared in 
numerous venues since the 1970s; his most recent chapbook, Out of 
Alphabetical Order, appeared at the moriapoetry (Chicago, 2015). 

Ralf Remshardt is professor of theatre at the University of Florida, 
where he is the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Acting. He 
attended universities in Munich and Berlin, Germany, and received a 
Ph.D. in Dramatic Art at UC Santa Barbara. He previously taught 
theatre at Denison University. Remshardt has worked in professional 
and university theatres as a director, translator, and dramaturg. His 
publications have appeared in many journals and several edited 
collections. His book, Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in 
Performance, was published in 2004. He co-produced a documentary 
film about New York Hispanic theatre in 2015. 

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Hal H. Rennert, Ph.D. (1975) University of Washington in Comparative 
Literature, taught German Studies on all levels and all literature genres 
at the University of Florida for twenty seven years until 2007, including 
feature film – introducing, as it were, the so called New German 
Cinema, to the University and the larger Gainesville community in the 
early 1980s. All along he practiced the art of translation (mostly from 
German) on a moonlighting basis, while being an active member of the 
American Translators Association (ATA) and the American Literature 
Translators Association (ALTA). At Carnegie-Mellon University (1976-
79) he was president of the Western Pennsylvania chapter of the ATA. 
His publications include books and articles on nineteenth and twentieth 
German literature (Goethe, Kleist, Mörike, Brecht, Frisch) and an 
edition of the art-historian Wilhelm Hausenstein’s letters. He also 
published translations of several short stories by Marie Luise 
Kaschnitz. In 1997 he was guest-editor for Delos, and now is its editor-
in-chief. 

Stephen Rojcewicz. Having retired in December 2012 after forty 
years in practice of psychiatry, Stephen Rojcewicz, MD, is now fulfilling 
his life-long interest in languages and literatures. After receiving an 
M.A. in Classics (Latin and Greek), Steve is currently a Ph.D. 
Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, 
writing a dissertation on the Latin and Greek influences on Thornton 
Wilder. As a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric 
Association, Steve is the co-author of a textbook on Supportive 
Psychotherapy and the author of numerous papers and book reviews 
on the relationship of psychiatry to the humanities. 

Richard Rundell was born in 1939 in Chicago. He retired in 2011 from 
New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, where he taught 
language, literature, culture, and film for forty years. His BA (Colorado 
College, 1961) is in German. His M.A. (Middlebury College/Johannes 
Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1962) thesis was on Max Frisch. His 
Ph.D. (University of Colorado, 1971) dissertation was on Brecht’s 
aphorisms. He has published on German poetry, drama, and cinema 
and continues teaching a German cinema course at NMSU. He was 
acquainted with Franz Josef Degenhardt and several of the other 
leading German Liedermacher and gave numerous conference papers 
on their songs. 

 

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Christopher Wickham teaches German language, literature, film and 
culture at the University of Texas in San Antonio. He was educated at 
the universities of Reading (UK), Regensburg (Bavaria), and 
Wisconsin-Madison (USA), and taught at Allegheny and Middlebury 
Colleges and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, before moving to 
San Antonio in 1991. His publications focus on German cinema and 
poetry, regional culture, as well as the language, film and literature of 
Bavaria. His book, Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany: Longing 
and Belonging, includes sections on dialect poetry and singer-
songwriters (Liedermacher). His co-authored book (with anthropologist 
Daniel Gelo) on Germans and Comanches in Texas is to be published 
in 2017. 

John White holds the Ph.D. in Music Composition and the Certificate 
in Cello from the Eastman School of Music of the University of 
Rochester. Author of numerous books on music, in 1996 White held a 
Fulbright Research Fellowship to Reykjavik, and in 1997 a Fellowship 
from the American Scandinavian Foundation to Göteborg, Sweden and 
was the Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at the University of 
Vienna, Austria in 2003-2004. After his service as principal cellist for 
the Seventh Army Symphony in Germany in the late 1950s, he served 
on the music faculties of the University of Michigan, the University of 
Wisconsin, Kent State University, concluding his academic 
appointments and service in the late 1990s at the University of Florida. 
He has had recent premieres of his compositions in New York, Boston, 
and San Francisco as well as numerous performances throughout the 
USA and Europe. In 2008 he received an international award from 
Segorbe, Spain, where he won first prize in the XXVI Contest for 
Choral Composition for his a capella choral work Credo Trifarium. 
Although he has composed extensively for instrumental ensembles, a 
critic in the Journal of Singing recently wrote: “He seems to especially 
understand how the human voice moves and flows.”White’s setting of 
lyric poems are numerous and diverse, including William Blake, Walt 
Whitman and Robert Frost. The premier of Kaschnitz Lieder, from 
which three have been selected for this issue of Delos, took place in 
Denver, Colorado in 2012. For copies of a CD of Kaschnitz Lieder, for 
a fee of $ 5.00, John White can be contacted directly at: 
jwhite48@earthlink.net  

 

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Lin Zhenhua is currently a teacher at the Green Oasis International 
School in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China. He studied at the 
College of Foreign Languages of Dalian Nationalities University and as 
a MA graduate at the Institute of Transcultural Studies of Bejing 
International Studies University. Motivated by his academic interest in 
translation studies and sinology, he has translated Roland Boer’s 
Criticism of Heaven (2011), and Ernst Robert Curtius’s European 
Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (forthcoming). He has also 
published ten academic papers. 

 

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