Description
What is the place of feminist translation on the twenty-first-century university curriculum? Why and how would we focus explicitly on teaching 'feminist' translation (rather than e.g. queer translation or gender-inclusive translation)? Feminist translation is often associated with the ‘Canadian school’ which emerged in the 1970s-1990s, and works from this period by Sherry Simon, Luise von Flotow and others have remained classic texts on the subject in Translation Studies. However, developments in gender and queer theory have made it difficult to articulate what feminist approaches might look like in the present-day. In this roundtable, we hope to initiate a discussion about how feminist translation is currently taught on undergraduate and postgraduate translation programmes in the UK, including the challenges of teaching feminist translation in a multilingual classroom with students from different backgrounds and with sometimes very diverse language-pairs. Our focus is explicitly on teaching feminist translation as a practical exercise, rather than feminist theory/feminist translation theory, and we are specifically interested in the following questions:•How do we teach feminist translation practice? What examples of textual and extra-textual strategies do we present to students?
•What does a feminist translation look like? How is it different from a gender-inclusive or queer translation?
•How do we assess feminist translations?
The roundtable is linked to the AHRC-funded ‘Feminist Translation Network’ project (PI Brown, CI Castro, with Saldanha on the Steering Committee), which runs from 1 May 2024-31 December 2025 and explores what feminist translation means in practice in the twenty-first century, focusing on contemporary literary translation in English.
| Period | 7 Nov 2024 |
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| Event title | Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland Annual Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Warwick, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |