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a note from the translator
I am a translator from the Spanish, Portuguese, and non-national Romance languages. My scholarship on the medieval to modern Iberian world inevitably engages translation and the questions it kicks up about representation, transhistorical citizenship, and the affordances of transfer. I consider translation as a platform for relation through differentiation, and identification through alienation.
I am available for commissions of literary translations. I’m particularly interested in the authors of the Ibero-American modernist wave, and medieval and early modern poets.
samples
from Camilo Pessanha’s Clepsydra and Other Poems, out with Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth.
Selected poems by Bernardim Ribeiro.
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