Ball State University
Department of Modern Languages and Classics
Research Presentation
For Position in Chair/Spanish Faculty
Dr. Jennifer Rathbun
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
4:00pm
In person attendance (NQ 160 for those with prior reservation: contact Ms. Sharon Stewart sdstewart@bsu.edu)
Virtual attendance zoom link: https://bsu.zoom.us/j/97409163820
Faithful Translations:
English translation of Contemporary Mexican Poetry
This talk examines the role of fidelity in translation and its repercussions on the practice of translating contemporary Mexican poetry into English. After exploring the origin of the question of faithfulness in translation and delving into modern-day issues impacting fidelity, it outlines the history of the translation of Mexican poetry into English through an analysis of the production of poetic anthologies and shares personal insights as a practicing translator who grapples with faithfulness in translation. It concludes that in spite of challenges, translation creates necessary intercultural bridges, exchanges and encounters.
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
Bio: Jennifer Rathbun is currently a Spanish Professor and Associate Editor of Ashland Poetry Press at Ashland University. She’s published fourteen books of poetry in translation by Hispanic authors such as Alberto Blanco, Minerva Margarita Villarreal, Fernando Carrera and Juan Armando Rojas Joo; two anthologies of poetry denouncing femicide along the US-Mexico border; and the poetry collection El libro de las traiciones / The Book of Betrayals. Rathbun completed her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Spanish specializing in contemporary Latin American Literature and she’s a member of The American Literary Translators Association.