Contacts

For all inquiries: engagingtranslation@gmail.com

People

Coordinating Faculty

Yopie Prins : Professor of Comparative Literature | Professor of English

Yopie Prins

Professor of Comparative Literature | Professor of English

Departmental Profile

yprins@umich.edu
Christi Merrill : Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory, Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature; Associate Chair, Center for South Asian Studies

Christi Merrill

Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory, Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature; Associate Chair, Center for South Asian Studies

Departmental Profile

merrillc@umich.edu
Silke-Maria Weineck : Chair, Department of Comparative Literature | Professor of German Studies

Silke-Maria Weineck

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature | Professor of German Studies

Departmental Profile

smwei@umich.edu

Graduate Student Research Assistants for the MCubed “Engaging Translation” project

Emily Goedde : Graduate Student

Emily Goedde

Graduate Student

Interests: Comparative translation studies of pre-modern Chinese texts; literary translation and translation theory; disability studies and representations of disability in Late Imperial ad Republican China.

Languages: Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, German

egoedde@umich.edu
Etienne Charriere : Graduate Student

Etienne Charriere

Graduate Student

Interests: prose fiction in the long nineteenth century; rise of the novel; cultural globalization; translation studies

Dissertation title: 'We Must Ourselves Write About Ourselves': The Transnational Rise of the Novel in the Late Ottoman Empire

Co-editor of Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation (2014-15)

Languages: French, Modern Greek, Armenian, Turkish

etiechar@umich.edu

Department info

Department of Comparative Literature
2021 Tisch Hall
435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
734.763.2351
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