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Notes on Contributors

Bernadette Cailler is a professor emerita at the University of Florida. She 
received degrees from the Universities of Poitiers, Paris, and Cornell (PhD in 
comparative literature, 1974). She published books on Aimé Césaire (1976) 
and Édouard Glissant (1988), and is also the author of Carthage ou la flamme 
du brasier: Mémoire et échos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Ghachem, Augus-
tin, Ammi, Broch, et Glissant (2007). Her recent articles include: “La ‘grande 
douloureuse douceur’ (É. Glissant) d’Aimé Césaire: à propos de Ferrements 
(1960),” Proceedings of a colloquium on “Césaire 2013: « parole due »”, Cerisy- 
la- Salle, 4– 11 septembre 2013, in Présence Africaine 189 (2014): 47– 60; 
“Poétique, Politique, et Éthique de l’Imaginaire dans Les neuf consciences du 
Malfini (2009) de Patrick Chamoiseau,” Présence Africaine 190 (2015): 283– 
95; “Promenoir(s) de la mort seule: quand Michaël Ferrier revient vers Glis-
sant lecteur de Tristan L’Hermite.” Dalhousie French Studies 113 (Winter 
2019): 123– 31; and forthcoming: “Figures du sujet poétique entre ‘Michaël’, 
‘Ferrier’ et un narrateur qui dit je,” Proceedings following an international 
conference on “Michaël Ferrier: un écrivain du corail” and on “Post- Fukushima 
Art and Literature in Japan and the West,” September 14– 15, 2017, University 
of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Alex Cigale’s first full book, Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writ-
ings, came out in the Northwestern University Press World Classics series in 
2017. In 2015, he was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation for 
his work on the poet of “the St. Petersburg philological school,” Mikhail Ere-
min. His own poems in English have appeared in The Colorado Review, The 
Common Online, and The Literary Review, and translations of classic and con-
temporary Russian poetry in Harvard Review Online, The Hopkins Review, 
Kenyon Review Online, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, 
TriQuarterly, Two Lines, Words Without Borders, and World Literature 
Today. He recently edited the Russian issues of the Atlanta Review and 
Trafika Europe, and is currently a Lecturer in Russian Literature and Language 
at CUNY- Queens College. This is his second contribution to Delos.

Rebecca Dehner- Armand is a literary translator of contemporary French and 
Francophone fiction. She is currently a PhD candidate in comparative literature 
at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on contemporary 



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Francophone literature, autobiography, exile and (self- ) translation studies. 
She has taught courses on French language and literature, translation theory, 
and intercultural communication. In addition to her academic publications, 
Rebecca has had her translations included in Asymptote’s blog as part of their 
“Translation Tuesday” series.

Jeanne Garane is professor of French and comparative literature at the Uni-
versity of South Carolina, Columbia, and has published a variety of essays on 
Francophone literature and film. She is the translator of Abdourahman A. 
Waberi’s Land Without Shadows (Unversity of Virginia Press, 2005) and Dan-
iel Picouly’s L’Enfant léopard (The Leopard Boy, University of Virginia 
Press, 2016). She has just completed the English- language translation of the 
first volume of Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Memoirs, Amkoullel, 
l’enfant peul (Amkoullel, The Fula Boy), which was supported by an internal 
University of South Carolina grant and a Spring, 2019, Camargo Foundation 
Fellowship. She also spearheaded the republication of Senegalese writer Ken 
Bugul’s Abandoned Baobab (trans. de Jaeger, 2008), edited Discursive Geog-
raphies (2005), co- edited Translation in French and Francophone Literature 
and Film (French Literature Series XXXVI, 2009) and edited two further vol-
umes in the same Brill/Rodopi series, Odysseys/Odyssées (XLI, 2016) and 
Hybrid Genres/L’Hybridité des genres (XLII, 2018).

Susan D. Gillespie is professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. 
She received a PhD in anthropology in 1983 from the University of Illinois at 
Urbana- Champaign. Before coming to UF in 2001, she held faculty positions 
in anthropology at the University of Illinois and Illinois State University. Her 
research specializations are archaeology, ethnohistory, and iconography of 
Mesoamerica, with concentrations on the Aztecs, Olmecs, and Mayas. She 
received the 1990 Erminie Wheeler- Voegelin Prize from the American Soci-
ety for Ethnohistory for The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in 
Mexican History (University of Arizona Press, 1989) and the 2002 Gordon R. 
Willey Prize from the American Anthropological Association for “Rethink-
ing Ancient Maya Social Organization: Replacing ‘Lineage’ with ‘House.’” 
She presented the 2012 Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture to the Archae-
ology Division of the American Anthropological Association, “The Entan-
glement of Jade and the Rise of Mesoamerica.”

Luis Guzmán Valerio has an MA in Translation from the University of Puerto 
Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and a PhD in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino 



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Cultures from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His trans-
lations have appeared in Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Lan-
guage & Culture and FIVE:2:ONE #thesideshow Flash Fiction. His creative 
writing has been published in Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and 
Cultures. This is his second contribution to Delos.

Lola Haskins serves as Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Asso-
ciation. Her most recent poetry collection (of thirteen) is Asylum: Improvisa-
tions on John Clare (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Her poems have 
appeared in The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, The London Review 
of Books, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and else-
where, and have been featured by two US Poet Laureates— Billy Collins and 
Ted Kooser—  besides having appeared on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. In 
addition, her poetry and commentaries have been broadcast on BBC and NPR. 
Besides poetry, Ms, Haskins has published three books of prose. Among her 
honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEAs, two Florida Book Awards, four 
Florida state arts fellowships, and the Emily Dickinson prize from the Poetry 
Society of America.

J. Kates is a poet and literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, New 
Hampshire.

Moscow- born, Nina Kossman is an artist, bilingual writer, poet, and play-
wright. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a 
UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, grants from Foundation for Hellenic Cul-
ture and Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, she is the author of 
two books of poems in Russian and English as well as the translator of two vol-
umes of Marina Tsvetaevas’s poetry. Her other books include Behind the Bor-
der (HarperCollins, 1994) and Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical 
Myths (Oxford University Press, 2001). Her translations of Russian poetry have 
been anthologized in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (Doubleday, 1993), The 
Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt Brace, 1995), The World Treasury of Poetry 
(Norton, 1998), and Divine Inspiration (Oxford University Press, 1998). Her 
Russian poems, in her own English translation, were published in a variety of 
literary journals, including MPT 20: Contemporary Russian Women Poets. Her 
English poems and short stories have been translated into several languages, 
including Japanese, Dutch, Greek, and Spanish. She lives in New York.

Dmitri Manin is a physicist, programmer and translator. His poetry translations 
into Russian from English and French appeared in several book collections. He 



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won the first prize in the 2018 Compass Awards for his English translation 
of a poem by Maria Stepanova. His translations from Russian have appeared 
in Delos, Cardinal Points, Why nICHt?, and The Café Review.

Andrea Pham is a linguist. Her areas of research are tonal languages, sound 
change, and gender and language. She has published a book (Vietnamese Tone: 
A New Analysis, Routledge, 2003) and several research papers. In the last three 
decades, she has written and published poems and poetry critiques, mostly in 
Vietnamese. In addition to individual poems in various magazines and newspa-
pers in Vietnam and Canada, she has published two collections of poems, Tiếng 
Mẹ (Mother’s Voice, Toronto, 1997) and Hãy nhảy cùng em / Dance with me (a 
bilingual collection of poems by Pham and Haskins, 2018, Danang, Vietnam).

Professor emeritus Hal H. Rennert holds degrees in English and compara-
tive literature, and has taught at Carnegie- Mellon and the University of Flor-
ida. He has published on Eduard Mörike, Goethe, Kleist, and Waiblinger, and 
edited the letters of Wilhelm Hausenstein as well as a collection of essays on 
modern German drama. Frank Jones, the translator of Brecht’s St. Joan of the 
Stockyards, was an inspiration, but technical translation jobs were welcome 
in the Pittsburgh days. He has published translations of literary works, poems, 
short stories, and plays from German to English, mostly twentieth- century 
writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. In the 1980s, he 
also served as a simultaneous oral conference translator at Disney World, 
Orlando. In April 2015, he took on the editorship of Delos: A Journal of Trans-
lation and World Literature.

Crediting his medical education (MD, 1969), psychiatric training, and forty 
years of practice for his efforts to pay full attention to nuance and patterns in 
narratives, Stephen Rojcewicz has broadened his life- long interest in lan-
guages and literature with an MA degree in classics (Latin and Greek, 2012) 
and a PhD in comparative literature (2017). He is the coauthor of a textbook 
on supportive psychotherapy and has published numerous papers and book 
reviews on classical reception and on the intersection of psychiatry and the 
humanities. Steve has published poetry translations (vol. 31) and articles on 
the relationships between classical literature and modern thought (vol. 32 and 
33.2) in Delos.

Christopher Smith received a PhD in Japanese literature from the University 
of Hawai’i at Mānoa and is currently an assistant professor of modern Japanese 



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literature at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses on modern 
Japanese literature, manga, and anime. His research focuses on postwar Jap-
anese literature, particularly contemporary literature (Heisei- Reiwa), as well 
as Japanese pop culture, including manga and anime. He also has an interest 
in Edo period literature. He is especially interested in examining how litera-
ture and culture represents, manipulates, and ultimately plays with Japanese 
history, examined through the lenses of nationalism, national identity, the 
historical legitimation of power, and postmodernism. He recently published a 
translation of Takana Yasuo’s Somehow, Crystal (Kurodahan Press).

Christopher J. Wickham is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas 
at San Antonio. He earned his advanced degrees at the University of Reading 
(UK) and the University of Wisconsin- Madison before embarking on a career 
teaching German and cinema studies at Allegheny College (PA), the Univer-
sity of Illinois at Chicago, and Middlebury College (VT), moving to Texas in 
1991. His publications include books on twentieth- century German culture 
(Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany: Longing and Belonging) and rela-
tions between German settlers and Native Americans (Comanches and Ger-
mans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus, with 
Daniel J. Gelo). He has also published articles and book chapters on poetry, 
drama, regionalism, Bavarian literature, dialect and culture, German and Aus-
trian film, and German language.




