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This volume brings together an international group of scholars, poets, translators, and publishers to explore new developments in both poetry and translation and the fluid boundary between them. The unique format combines a series of conversations between leading poets whose writing is informed by the experience of translation and being translated with essays addressing theoretical, aesthetic, and cross-cultural aspects of contemporary poetry translation in English, German, and Russian.
About the author
Maria Khotimsky is Senior Lecturer in Russian in the Global Languages Department at MIT. She is the co-editor of
The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova: Origins, Philosophies, Points of Contention (2019) and
Olga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia (2017). Her research interests include literary translation, content-based language pedagogy, and translingual poetry.
Friederike Reents is Full Professor in German Literature in German Department at Eichstätt University She is the co-editor of
Autor und Subjekt im Gedicht - Positionen, Perspektiven und Praktiken heute (Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik, Bd. 1) (2021) and
Lyrik und Erkenntnis (2019). Her research interests include lyricology, environmental humanities, and literary translation.
Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer is Professor of Slavic Literary Studies at the University of Trier and Executive Editor of the
International Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on Russian symbolism, philosophy, and poetry. She is author of the monograph
Sophia in the Thought of Vladimir Solov'ev: An Aesthetic Reconstruction.
William Waters teaches German & Comparative Literature and Translation at Boston University. He is the author of
Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address and numerous essays on poetics and on Rilke. He serves on the board of the Internationale Rilke-Gesellschaft, and co-founded the International Network for the Study of Lyric (lyricology.org).
