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Alexander Burak is an associate professor of Russian Studies in the Depart-
ment of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, 
Gainesville. He is a graduate of the Translators’ and Interpreters’ Department 
of the Maurice Thorez Institute in Moscow (currently named the Moscow Lin-
guistic University). He has a PhD in sociology from Moscow State Univer-
sity. He is the author of five books— Translating Culture 1: Words (Moscow: 
R.Valent, 2010); Translating Culture 2: Sentence and Paragraph Semantics 
(Moscow: R.Valent, 2013); “The Other” in Translation: A Case for Com-
parative Translation Studies (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers/Indiana 
University, 2013); What it Takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice 
(Saarbrücken / Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014); and Russia’s 
Visionaries: Direct Speech (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub-
lishing, 2021, 2023)— as well as numerous articles on translation.

Odile Cisneros received a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from New York 
University and is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and 
Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Can-
ada. A translator and critic, she has published essays and has translated the 
work of modern and contemporary poets, including Jaroslav Seifert, 
Vítězslav Nezval, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Haroldo de Campos, Sérgio 
Medeiros, and Régis Bonvicino, among others. Her full- length translation 
of Haroldo de Campos’s experimental prose Galáxias is due out from Ugly 
Duckling Presse in December 2023. She is the creator of ecopoesia . com, 
an online trilingual anthology of environmental poetry from Latin 
America.

Tiffanie R. Clark is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish at Central 
State University, a translator, and a creative writer. Author of “La evolu-
ción espiritual en tres obras de Amado Nervo” (2021), “Ilka Oliva Cora-
do’s Poetry of the Diaspora” (2020), and “Mujer sin Edén: Fusiones del 
feminismo y posguerra” (2021), Dr. Clark’s research interests are Central 
American Literature, Modernism, and diasporic women’s writing. Cur-
rently, Dr. Clark is working on a translation of four collections of poetry 
by German Salas. Her first full collection of poetry, Intent to Return, is in 
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Juliet Guzzetta is an associate professor with joint appointments in the 
Department of English and the Department of Romance and Classical Stud-
ies at Michigan State University. Her first book, The Theater of Narration: 
From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy (Northwestern 
UP, 2021; translation in Italian by Accademia University Press, 2023), explores 
a form of contemporary solo theater in its historical, political, and performa-
tive dimensions. She has published articles and essays in Theatre History Stud-
ies, Annali d’Italianistica, Gender/Sexuality/Italy, Spunti e ricerche, and 
several edited volumes. Her research has been supported by a year- long Ful-
bright grant to Italy as well as Harvard’s Mellon School for Theater and Per-
formance Research. Currently, she is working on a monograph that analyzes 
the political interests of Franca Rame as a way to better understand her the-
ater and she is editing a collection on Italian feminist thought.

Óscar Hahn is one of Chile’s most renowned poets, the author of more than 
twenty volumes of poetry and collected works. Anthologized in many lan-
guages, he has been awarded some of the most important literary prizes in 
the Spanish- speaking world. Hahn’s most recent books of poems in transla-
tion are The Butchers’ Reincarnation (Dos Madres Press, 2020) and Poemas 
selectos / Selected Poems (Nueva York Poetry Press, 2021), both translated 
by G. J. Racz.

Yuemin He is a writer, translator, and editor. She has published on Asian 
American literature, Buddhist American literature, East Asian literature and 
visual art, and composition pedagogy. Her poetry translations appear in Oxford 
Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (2nd ed.), Meta-
morphoses, Ezra, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, and many other 
places. Currently, she is an English professor at Northern Virginia Commu-
nity College.

Greg Hohman is a writer living in Chula Vista, California. His current proj-
ects are a novel To copy as in the old days, an homage to Flaubert’s Bouvard 
and Pécuchet and the American shopping mall, and the online multimedia 
New Monuments Golf Club (newmonumentsgc . com), a 2017 iteration of 
which was a finalist in the Opening Up Digital Fiction Competition (Arts and 
Humanities Research Council, U.K.). His theater work includes Legal Noise 
(Victory Theater, San Diego CA, 2012) and Play in the Dark (Muse Theater, 
San Diego CA, 2003). In 2006, he was a Djerassi Resident Artists Program 
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Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bengali lit-
erature. Starting his career as a journalist and now working as translator in 
the Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, he has published six books of 
short stories, which, in recent years, have attracted much acclaim from 
both general readers and literary critics. His signature style is using the 
native reality as the setting through the technique of magical realism or 
surrealism. He has been awarded four times for his short stories. His debut 
novel Timiryatra has gained popularity as well as critical acclaim. With 14 
books to his credit, Mojaffor Hossain is also known as a translator and lit-
erary critic.

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam is the author of two poetry collections, most 
recently Inner State, and the translator of Humayun Ahmed: Selected Short 
Stories and Aphorisms of Humayun Azad. His work has appeared in various 
renowned international journals and magazines, including Journal of Post-
colonial Writing, Critical Survey, Massachusetts Review, Poem: International 
English Language Quarterly, Journal of World Literature, English in Educa-
tion, South Asian Review, English: Journal of the English Association, Jour-
nal of Poetry Therapy, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Asia Pacific 
Translation and Intercultural Studies, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Modern 
Poetry in Translation, Dibur Literary Journal, Lunch Ticket, and elsewhere. 
Dr. Islam is Professor of English at Shahjalal University of Science and Tech-
nology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

G. J. Racz is professor of Humanities at LIU Brooklyn, a former president of 
the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and review editor for 
Translation Review. Primarily a poetry translator with a specialization in 
meter and rhyme, Racz has published nine books of work by the Peruvian 
author Eduardo Chirinos, most recently A Brief History of Music and Four-
teen Forms of Melancholy (Diálogos Books, 2020). Racz’s work also appeared 
last year in the bilingual volume Architects of the Imaginary (Gival Press, 
2022) by Marta López- Luaces. His translations for the theatre include: Rig-
maroles by Jaime Salom in Three Comedies (UP of Colorado, 2004); Life Is 
a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Fuenteovejuna and The Dog in the 
Manger by Félix Lope de Vega, The Siege of Numantia by Miguel Cervantes, 
and Trials of a Noble House by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in The Golden Age 
of Spanish Drama: A Norton Critical Edition (W. W. Norton & Co., 2018); 
and Dark Stone by Alberto Conejero in “Stages of Desire” (ESTRENO Con-
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Mark Schafer is an award- winning translator and visual artist and a Senior 
Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His two most 
recent translations are Stay This Day and Night with Me, his translation of 
Belén Gopegui’s novel, and Migrations: Poem, 1976– 2020, his translation of 
Gloria Gervitz’s life’s- work poem. He also edited and translated the career- 
spanning anthology of the poetry of David Huerta, Before Saying Any of the 
Great Words: Selected Poems. In addition to the work of Gopegui, Gervitz, 
and Huerta, Schafer has translated the poetry, fiction, and essays of authors 
across the Spanish- speaking world, including Virgilio Piñera, Alberto Ruy 
Sánchez, Jesús Gardea, Eduardo Galeano, and Antonio José Ponte. He lives 
in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mas-
sachusett and Wampanoag Peoples, with his wife and daughter.

Gregor Thuswaldner is Provost and Executive Vice President and Professor 
of World Languages & Cultures at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash-
ington. From 2016 to 2020, he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sci-
ences and Professor of Humanities at North Park University in Chicago 
where he was also Acting Provost in 2017. Before that, he was Professor of 
German and Linguistics at Gordon College (2003- 2016) and Chair of the 
Department of Languages and Linguistics (2006- 2012). In 2006, he received 
Gordon College’s Distinguished Junior Faculty Award. He has written on lit-
erature, language, history, religion, culture, politics, and higher education. 
His latest book publication is the co- edited volume Thomas Bernhard’s After-
lives (Bloomsbury, 2020) which was nominated for the MLA Prize for an 
Edited Collection. He is currently co- editing the Routledge Handbook of 
Christianity and Culture and editing The Provost’s Handbook (Johns Hop-
kins University Press).


