ALTA Conference

Conference Panels

This is a preliminary list of panels and moderators (with contact information) for the 2006 ALTA Conference. The panels preceded by an asterisk had openings for panelists as of mid-April.

* ALTA and the World: A Round Table on ALTA and Other Translation Organizations
Ann G. Macfarlane - ann.macfarlane@russianresourcesint.com

Avoiding the Missionary Position (Early Chinese Poetry)
Mike Farman - mfarman@nsbf.nasa.gov

* Awards, Grants & Funding for Translators
Susan Harris - susaneharris@earthlink.net

Collaborative Translation
Kelly Lenox Allan - KLAllan@alumni.virginia.edu

A Dialog of Poetry: Translating and Being Translated as a Poet
Monica Sanchez Escuer - msescuer@utep.edu

Facing Pages: Publishing Translations in Literary Magazines I
Carolyne Wright - carolyne.eulene@juno.com

Facing Pages: Publishing Translations in Literary Magazines II
Olivia Sears - osears@catranslation.org

Facing Text: Publishing Book-Length Translations in the 21st C.
J. Göransson - johannesgoransson@gmail.com

* Getting off Pegasus – Translating Folklore
Anatol Zukerman - azukerman@rcn.com

* Idiom & Poetry: The Outhouse in the Forest
Art Beck - dennisdybeck@sbcglobal.net

* Langston Hughes and Translating the Pulse of the People
Nedra E. Bickham - nedra@splendidcentury.com

* On Hospitality and Receiving the Stranger: Ethics of Translation
Tasha Buttler - tbuttler@u.washington.edu

A Pickle is Not Always a Turshu: Translating from Turkish
Aron Aji - aaji@butler.edu

Poetry Inside Out
John Oliver Simon - josimon@lmi.net

Poets Translating Poets
Sholeh Wolpe - sfwolpe@aol.com

The Prose Poem in East Asia: Previews of a Sentence Feature
Steve Bradbury - stevenedgarbradbury@yahoo.com

* Reading and Writing Chinese
Michael F. Capobianco - capobiam@stjohns.edu

Retranslating Classic Literature
Marilyn Gaddis Rose - mgrose@binghamton.edu

* Russian Prose Since the Collapse: Within Russia and Without
Brian Baer - bbaer@kent.edu

Scandinavian Translation (Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic)
Ingrid Lansford - Ingridtranslates@cs.com

* Sound & Translation in Prose and Poetry
Clare Sullivan - clara.sullivan@louisville.edu

* Swedish Literature Since 1970
Laura Wideburg - Wideburg@ix.netcom.com

Teaching Literary Translation
Giuseppe Natale - Giuseppe.natale@unlv.edu

* Teaching Literature in Translation
Ann G. Macfarlane - ann.macfarlane@russianresourcesint.com

* Teaching Translation in a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Program
Johnny Payne - jpayne@utep.edu

* Translating Faith: Struggles with Religion in Poetry
Ellen Doré Watson - ewatson@email.smith.edu

* Translating McOndo: Finding a Voice for Third Culture Kids
Elizabeth Lowe - elowe@latam.ufl.edu

* Translating Multilingual Latin American Literature
Adriana X. Tatum - atatum@Princeton.edu
Karen Phillips - karenphillips15@gmail.com

* Translating Out of Instability (Translations from emerging or non-standardized languages)
Rachel Harrell - rdlh@umich.edu

* Translating Pre-Modern Literatures
Michael A. Faletra - Michael.Faletra@uvm.edu

* Translating the Erotic Mode in Persian Poetry
Mahmood Karimi-Hakak - mhakak@siena.edu

* Translating the Southern Cone
Sergio Waisman - waisman@gwu.edu

* Translation from Bengali
Carolyne Wright - carolyne.eulene@juno.com

The Translations of James Scarth Gale, a Missionary in Korea, 1888-1927
Bruce Fulton - fultonb@interchange.ubc.ca

* The Translator and the Internet: Helpful, Troublesome or Transformative?
Gwido Zlatkes - Franklvigoda@hotmail.com

What Price Staging? Adaptation and Compromise in Theater Translation
Gary Racz - Gregary.Racz@liu.edu

* Women Translators and the Art of Cultural Mediation
Anna Barker - BarkerAnna@mchsi.com