Notes on Contributors
Dror Abend-David teaches at 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 second book, Media and Translation: An 
Interdisciplinary Approach, was published in June 2014 (soft 
cover 2016) with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. His third 
book, Representing Translation: Languages, Translation, and 
Translators in Contemporary Media is forthcoming in September 
2018. Dror received his doctorate in Comparative Literature 
from New York University (2001), and has published articles on 
Translation in relation to Media, Drama, Literature, and Jewish 
Culture. His email address is dabend@ufl.edu.

Shaina M. Anderson is a doctoral student in Classics at the 
University of Florida. She became enthralled with literature and 
language while earning an undergraduate degree in English 
literature and biology. Her interests expanded when she began 
studying Latin, and she subsequently earned an M.A. in Classics. 
She is currently teaching accelerated Latin. Recent travels 
include spending the summer in Italy, after being accepted to the 
American Academy at Rome, and in Greece, where she attended 
a Fall 2016 conference at the International Olympic Academy. 
Her email address is andersonshaina87@ufl.edu.

Ilya Bernstein is a poet and translator. He is the author of one 
collection of poems, Attention and Man (Ugly Duckling Presse, 
2003), and the editor of anthologies of poems by Osip Mandelstam 
and Yevgeny Baratynsky in English translation (both from UDP, 
2006 and 2015).

Alexander Burak is an associate professor of Russian Studies 
in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the 
University of Florida. He is a graduate of the Translators’ and 
Interpreter’s Department of the Moscow Linguistic University 
(popularly known as the “Maurice Thorez Institute”) in Moscow. 
Dr. Burak has the Russian equivalent of an M.A. in Translation/
Interpreting Studies from the Moscow Linguistic University and 
the Russian equivalent of a Ph.D. in sociology from Moscow State 
University (MGU). He is the author of four 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 Comparative 
Translation Studies (Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishing, 

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2013); and What It Takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice 
(Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014), as well as 
of numerous other publications on translation.

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

Pamela Carmell received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2008 
for Oppiano Licario by José Lezama Lima. Her translations of 
poems by Nancy Morejón were published in With Eyes and Soul 
(White Pine Press, 2004) and Homing Instincts (Cubanabooks, 
2014). Other translations include The Last Cato, by Matilde 
Asensi (Harper Collins, 2006), The Last Portrait of the Duchess 
of Alba by Antonio Larreta (Book-of-the-Month Club selection), 
Woman on the Front Lines by Belkis Cuza Malé, (supported by 
the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry), and the short story 
collection Cuba on the Edge (co-translator, co-editor). She has 
also translated work by Luisa Valenzuela, Manuel Puig, Ena 
Lucía Portela, Carlos Cortes, and Gloria Fuertes, among others. 
In 2000 she was selected to participate in Writers of the Americas, 
a writers’ exchange in Havana. 

Robert Chandler’s translations from Russian include many 
works by Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov. He has compiled 
three anthologies for Penguin Classics: of Russian short stories, 
of Russian magic tales and, most recently, (with Boris Dralyuk 
and Irina Mashinski), The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. His 
co-translations of two volumes of memoirs and stories by Teffi 
were published in May 2016. He is the editor and main translator 
of Fourteen Little Red Huts, a selection of Andrey Platonov’s 
plays published in December 2016 by Columbia University 
Press in their new series Russian Library. His short biography of 
Alexander Pushkin is to be republished by Pushkin Press in 2017 
and he runs a monthly translation workshop at Pushkin House 
(London). His translations have won prizes in both the UK and 
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Anne Connor is Professor of Spanish at Southern Oregon 
University and directs the Summer Language Institute for Spanish 
Teachers in the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.  She received 
her Ph.D. in Spanish from Vanderbilt University, with a secondary 
area of interest in Brazilian literature.  Beyond translation, her 
research interests include the Fantastic in Contemporary Latin 
American Literature and Film, Women Writers of Latin America, 
and Music and Culture of Latin America. 

Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Com-
parative Literature at Princeton University and a Member of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published 
widely on modern German writers (e.g., Dilthey, Nietzsche, Musil, 
Kraus, Mann, Benjamin, Adorno, among others) but for the most 
part has been translating and writing on the work of Franz Kafka. 
He is now completing an intellectual biography of the philosopher  
Walter Kaufmann.

Anne O. Fisher’s translation of Ksenia Buksha’s avant-garde 
novel The Freedom Factory is forthcoming with Phoneme 
Media in 2017. Fisher has also translated works by Ilya Ilf and 
Evgeny Petrov, Andrey Platonov, and Margarita Meklina. Fisher’s 
translations have been recognized by the Northern California 
Book Awards, AATSEEL, and Academia Rossica. With co-
translator Derek Mong, Fisher won an NEA Translation Grant 
to support work on contemporary Russian poet Maxim Amelin’s 
verse; their renderings have appeared in Asymptote, the Brooklyn 
Rail, Two Lines, the International Poetry Review, and elsewhere. 
Fisher holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and lives in 
Indiana with her family.

Adria Frizzi writes about and translates Italian and Latin American 
literature.  She has published five book-length translations: Nine, 
Novena (Sun & Moon Press, 1995; rev. 2nd ed, Green Integer, 
2010) and The Queen of the Prisons of Greece (Dalkey Archive 
Press, 1995), both by Osman Lins; Whatever Happened to 
Dulce Veiga? (UT Press, 2000) by Caio Fernando Abreu; and 
Stories from the Copan Building by Regina Rheda (in First World 
Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix, UT Press, 2005). 
Besides Marina Colasanti, other authors she has translated 
include  Dacia Maraini, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Drummond, and 
Dinorath do Valle.  She teaches Italian and Translation Studies at 
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Rachel J. Halverson is Professor of German and chair of the 
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University 
of Idaho. She specializes in post-war and post-unification German 
literature and culture and has published on the Historikerstreit, 
and the works of Siegfried Lenz, Jurek Becker, Thomas Brussig, 
Günter de Bruyn, Martina Hefter, Wolfgang Hilbig, Tobias Hülswitt, 
Hanna Johansen, Hermann Kant, and Judith Kuckart. In addition 
to journal articles and book chapters, she has co-edited three 
anthologies: Textual Responses to German Unification (Walter 
de Gruyter Verlag, 2001) and Berlin: The Symphony Continues 
(Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2004) co-edited with Carol Anne 
Costabile-Heming and Kristie Foell; and Taking Stock of German 
Studies in the United States: The New Millennium (Camden 
House, 2015) co-edited with Costabile-Heming. 
Daniel Kennedy is an Irish-born translator currently based in 
Rennes, France. He is a two-time translation fellow at the Yiddish 
Book Center, and his translations from the Yiddish have appeared 
in Pakn Treger and In Geveb. He is a founding editor of Farlag 
Press, a non-profit collective specializing in smaller languages. 
His website is: danielkennedy.weebly.com.
Ann Manov is a recent English, French, and Spanish graduate of 
the University of Florida and a current Fulbright English Teaching 
Assistant in Strasbourg, France. Her writing has appeared in 
Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and 
Society; The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North; 
SAND Journal; The Lake; and more. 
Julia Morrisroe is an artist and Associate Professor in painting 
and drawing at University of Florida.  Morrisroe holds a Bachelor 
of Fine Arts degree from Northern Illinois University and a 
Master of Fine Arts from University of Washington. Morrisroe’s 
paintings, drawings and installations have been exhibited in over 
17 solo exhibitions and 90 groups exhibitions in museums and art 
galleries worldwide.
Sean Negus is a poet, educator, and experimental writer working 
occasionally in digital media environments. In addition to lecturing 
at San Francisco State University in the English Department, he 
has published poems in WebConjunctions, Dusie Magazine and 
Poecology. Last year after completing the EPIC Fellowship at 
Stanford University on the literary transnational and composition 
pedagogy, he traveled to Brazil and Argentina to explore literary 
and artistic collaborations. Ongoing digital writing projects of his 
can be found at: http://www.transpoiesis.com. 

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Marco Alexandre de Oliveira holds a Ph.D. in Comparative 
Literature and an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures 
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has 
published translations in Delos: A Journal of Translation and 
World Literature, Machado de Assis Magazine: Brazilian 
Literature in Translation, and Zunái: 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 exhibitions 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, is published by Moria Books, http://moriapoetry.com  
(Chicago, 2015).

Wendy Pfeffer, Ph.D. Toronto 1979, is professor of French in the 
Department of Classical and Modern Languages at the University 
of Louisville. 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), con-
siders 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 that will be 
funded by a second Fulbright grant to France (2018). She has 
been recognized by the French government as an officier in the 
Order of Arts and Letters.

Stephen Rojcewicz. Crediting his medical education (M.D., 
1969), psychiatric training, and forty years of practice with his 
efforts to pay full attention to nuance and patterns in narratives, 
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in languages and literature. Having earned a Master’s degree 
in Classics (Latin and Greek) just prior to his retirement from 
psychiatry, Stephen will be defending his Ph.D. dissertation in 
Comparative Literature, “Our Tears: Thornton Wilder’s Reception 
and Americanization of the Latin and Greek Classics,” at the 
University of Maryland in spring, 2017. He is the co-author of 
a textbook on supportive psychotherapy, and has published 
numerous papers and book reviews on the intersection of 
psychiatry and 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 B.A. (Colorado College, 1961) is in German. His M.A. thesis 
(Middlebury College/Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 
1962) was on Max Frisch. His Ph.D. dissertation (University of 
Colorado, 1971) 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.

Timothy D. Sergay is a translator and associate professor of 
Russian at the State University of New York, Albany. His research 
interests include the Russian Silver Age, translation practice and 
theory, and Russian “guitar poetry.” He has published various 
translations and articles in English and Russian, including entries 
in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. 
He has recently translated the contemporary historical novel by 
Aleksandr Chudakov, Lozhitsia mgla na starye stupeni (A Gloom 
Descends Upon the Ancient Steps).

Pennell Somsen is a 2015 graduate of City University of New 
York’s Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her 
published translations include “Cowboy Boots” in the Rio Grande 
Review (2015) and “Happy Box” and “Whadayalookingfor” in Latin 
American Literature Today (Jan. 2017), all by Nadia Villafuerte. 
Her essays in Spanish have been published in Memorias del 
Coloquio de LART 2014 (Campana 2016); Inquietudes, the York 
College, CUNY Spanish language magazine, in 2014 and 2015; 
and by La Salvaje Cartonera, Chiapas, Mexico in 2014. 


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