Presentations

BookPeople, Austin, Texas, November 7, 2008

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

Readings

  • 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

  • “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

  • “The Art and Politics of Retranslation,” Oberlin College, October 14, 2009
  • “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

Download this page