Presentations

Readings

Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, April 17, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 16, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 12, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, BookPeople, Austin, TX, April 8, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA April 5, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, Center for the Art of Translation, Hotel Rex, San Francisco, CA, April 4, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin, Maidenhair, annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Rochester, NY, October 5, 2012
Mikhail Shishkin’s Maidenhair, with the author, publisher Chad Post of Open Letter, as part of the Bridge series, McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York City, June 7, 2012
Andrei Gelasimov’s Thirst, annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 17, 2011
Olga Slavnikova’s 2017, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, October 25, 2010
Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard, BookPeople, Austin, Texas, November 7, 2008
Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard, Muddy Waters Café, Rochester, New York, October 2, 2008
Ruben Gallego’s White on Black, American Cultural Center, Moscow, September 17, 2007
Nina Berberova’s Billancourt Tales, American Cultural Center, Moscow, November 3, 2002
Nina Berberova’s Ladies from St. Petersburg, BookPeople, Austin, Texas, November 21, 1998

Workshops & classes

"Mikhail Shishkin's Maidenhair," Literary Translation Seminar, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 16, 2013
"Literary Translation Today," Center for the Art of Translation and Northern California Translators Association, San Francisco, California, March 20, 2010
“Polishing a Fiction Translation: Multiple Languages,” American Literary Translators Association annual conference, Pasadena, California, November 12, 2009
“Translation Theory and the Translator,” Oberlin College, October 15, 2009
“Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov,” Graduate literary translation seminar, Kent State University, October 13, 2009
"Anna Karenina and the Art and Politics of Retranslation," UCLA, November 23, 2008
“Tolstoy and Retranslation,” University of Rochester, October 2, 2008
“Introduction to Literary Translation,” Austin Community College, September 27, October 4, 2008
“Introduction to Literary Translation,” Austin Community College, June 23, 30, 2007
“Olga Slavnikova’s ‘Secret of the Unread Note,’” Graduate literary translation seminar, Kent State University, April 13, 2007
Punctuation workshop, Ohio State University, April 12, 2007
“Yuri Olesha’s Envy,” Kenyon College, April 10, 2007
“Translation as Craft and Career,” Miami University, April 9, 2007
“Punctuation Strategies,” Translating Eastern Europe conference, Ohio State University, September 30, 2005
“Introduction to Literary Translation,” AATIA workshop, June 4, 2005
“Introduction to Literary Translation,” May 22, 2004, Center for Art in Translation and NCTA, San Francisco
“An Editor’s Eye View of Grammar and Style in Translation,” AATIA Regional Conference, April 2004
“Anna Karenina,” April 21, 2004, Kent State University

Lectures & panels

Interview by Chad Post at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Rochester, NY, October 6, 2012
“Ten Little Indians: Translating Mikhail Shishkin’s ‘Maidenhair,’” Kent State University, February 2, 2012
"Constance Garnett and the West’s Love Affair with Russian Literature," annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, November 17, 2011
&1dquo;The Literary Translator and the U.S. Publishing Industry,” Marilyn Gaddis Rose Distinguished Lecture, Literary Division, at the annual meeting of the American Translators Association, Denver, October 28, 2010
“The Art and Politics of Retranslation,” Oberlin College, October 14, 2009; annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, November 17, 2011
“Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard and the Art and Politics of Retranslation,” University of Texas at Austin, November 19, 2008
Reading the World Conversation Series, University of Rochester, October 1, 2008
“My Career in Literary Translation,” Moscow State Linguistics University, September 21, 2007
“Literary Translation in the United States,” Klub perevodchikov, Moscow, September 19, 2007
“Ruben Gallego’s White on Black,” Oberlin College, Ohio, April 16, 2007
“Ruben Gallego’s White on Black,” Keynote address, Midwest Slavic Conference, April 12, 2007
“The Pain and Pleasure of Literary Translation,” Kenyon College, Ohio, April 11, 2007
“Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time,” Miami University, April 9, 2007
“Good Writing and Literary Translation,” Associated Writing Programs annual conference, March 11, 2006
“The Craft of Literary Translation,” June 4, 2005, Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association, Austin, Texas
“Criticism and Marketing in the United States,” Non/fiction book fair, Moscow, November 27, 2002