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Dror Abend- David teaches in 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 Transla-
tions of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. His 
second book, Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, was 
published in 2014 (paperback 2016) with Bloomsbury Academic Publish-
ing. His third book, Representing Translation: Languages, Translation, 
and Translators in Contemporary Media, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury 
Academic in Spring 2019. Dror has published articles on translation in relation 
to media, drama, literature, and Jewish culture. His e- mail address is da2137 
@nyu  .edu.

Dr. Abidemi Bolarinwa is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and 
African Languages, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is also an associate 
lecturer at the Yoruba Language Centre, University of Ibadan. She is a mem-
ber of several learned and professional associations such as the International 
Society for Oral Literature in Africa (ISOLA). Currently she is the Public 
Relation Officer of Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria (YSAN) and Sub- 
Dean (General) Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is happily 
married with children.

Michael Efroimsky, PhD Oxford 1995, is a Russian- born astronomer work-
ing at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. In 2008– 2009, he 
served as the chair of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American 
Astronomical Society. Known mainly for his contribution to the theory of 
rotation of the planet Mercury, he also coauthored a book, Relativistic Celes-
tial Mechanics of the Solar System (by S. Kopeikin, M. Efroimsky, & G. 
Kaplan. Wiley- VCH, Berlin 2011). His recent research has been devoted to the 
system of seven planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST- 1: http:  //iopscience  .iop 
 .org  /article  /10  .3847  /1538  - 4357  /aab845  /meta.

Victor Alfredovich Kulle wrote Russia’s first dissertation on Joseph Brod-
sky’s poetry (1996) and has translated into Russian the body of Brodsky’s 
English-language poems. His own poetry has been published in the collec-
tions Palimpsest (2001), Everything Seriously (2011), and Persistence and 



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Light (2017). He has written numerous articles in various periodicals, and 
scripts for documentaries on Russian writers. He is an associate professor of 
the Literary Institute in Moscow, head of the poetry seminar, and a member 
of the Russian PEN Center. Among his literary awards are the Noviy mir 
magazine prize (2006), the Italian “Lerici Pea – Mosca” (2009), the A. M. 
Zverev prize from Inostrannaya literatura magazine (2013), the New Pushkin 
Prize (2016) and the prize of the Writers’ Union of Moscow “The Crown” 
(2017). Among his other translations are the Book of Psalms, the complete 
poetic legacy of Michaelangelo, and poetry from John Donne to Seamus 
Heaney. He worked on the fundamental bilingual edition Poetry of the 
Nationalities of the Russian Federation (2017) and compiled the legendary 
poetry collection Latin Quarter (1991) and the anthology Philological 
School (2006).

Bevil Luck was born and grew up in Cornwall, in the southwestern toe of the 
UK. He read English at Oxford before working in various jobs in London for 
two years. He is currently in the fourth year of his PhD at the University of 
Southampton, writing a thesis on the poetry of F. T. Prince entitled, “The 
Froward Master.” He may be contacted at bevil  .luck@gmail  .com.

Dmitri Manin is a physicist, programmer, and translator. His poetry transla-
tions into Russian from English and French appeared in several book collec-
tions. He won the first prize in the 2018 Compass Awards for his English 
translation of a poem by Maria Stepanova. Several of his translations from 
Russian into English are to appear in journals.

J. E. Rivers is professor of English at the University of Colorado- Boulder, 
where he also teaches comparative literature. Author of the prize- winning crit-
ical study Proust and the Art of Love, which contains first- time translations 
of neglected French texts, he is also coeditor of and contributor to Nabokov’s 
Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life’s Work. In addition to translations 
of work by and about Proust, he has published translations of work by Guil-
laume Apollinaire and Georges Duhamel and translations from German 
(Rilke), Spanish (Neruda and Sor Juana), and Chinese (Du Fu and Li Bai).

Crediting his medical education (MD, 1969), psychiatric training, and forty 
years of practice with his efforts to pay full attention to nuance and patterns 
in narratives, Stephen Rojcewicz has broadened his life- long interests in lan-
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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.

Gregor Thuswaldner (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is 
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of humanities at North 
Park University in Chicago. He has published numerous essays on German 
and Austrian literature, film, culture, politics, history, religion, linguistics, 
and higher education. With Robert Dassanowsky, he translated Felix Mitter-
er’s play Jägerstätter (University of New Orleans Press, 2016). Dr. Thus-
waldner’s latest book publication is the coedited essay collection, The 
Hermeneutics of Hell: Visions and Representations of the Devil in World Lit-
erature (Palgrave, 2017). He is an elected member of PEN American Center, 
PEN Austria, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and serves as 
President of the Austrian Studies Association. Dr. Thuswaldner is also on the 
editorial board of Delos.

Daniel White is a PhD student in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at 
University College London. Daniel’s doctoral research concentrates on the 
political career of the sometime ruler of Iceland, Þórðr kakali Sighvatsson 
(b.1210– d.1256). More broadly, Daniel’s research interests lie at the intersec-
tion of constitutional law, state formation, political culture, power politics and 
disputing strategies. Daniel can be contacted via his institutional email address: 
daniel  .white  .17@ucl  .ac  .uk.

Patricia Worth has a Master of Translation Studies from the Australian 
National University. Her translation of George Sand’s Spiridion was published 
by SUNY Press in 2015. Two bilingual short story books were published in 
2017 and 2018 by Volkeno Books Vanuatu, and a collection of short stories by 
Jean Lorrain is forthcoming in 2018 from Odyssey Books. A number of her 
translations have also been published in Australian, New Caledonian and US 
literary journals, including Southerly Journal, Sillages d’Océanie 2014, The 
Brooklyn Rail, and Eleven Eleven. She keeps a blog on translation and other 
matters at https:  //soundslikewish  .org/.




