Presentations

White Guard reading, BookPeople, Austin, November 7, 2008

Readings

• 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

• "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

• “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

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