Dr Hilary Brown will be leading a project over 2024-25 which will explore what feminist translation means in practice in the twenty-first century.
Dr Brown has been awarded an AHRC Networking grant, together with her co-investigator Dr Olga Castro (University of Warwick/Barcelona), and will be establishing a "Feminist Translation Network" which will bring together researchers, practitioners and educators to discuss feminist approaches to contemporary literary translation in English. The Network will ask questions such as: What is feminist translation (e.g. how does it differ - or not - from translations by women/of women or from queer translation/gender-inclusive translation)? Is feminist translation a matter of identity or a matter of practice? What are the goals of feminist translation and whom is it for?
The Network will address these themes at a series of free public events held over 2024-25, beginning with a translation 'slam' and roundtable discussion at the Birmingham Literature Festival in October 2024.
The Network's activities will be overseen by a steering group which includes former DoML staff member Dr Gaby Saldanha.
Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies
Biographical and contact information for Dr Hilary Brown, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham.
