TRNS Professionalization Series-- Interpreting with Dr. Leah Leone Anderson

Join the Translation Program for a series of talks on professional paths for translators after graduation by specialists in the field. Specifically designed for Translation Majors/minors, but all are welcome to join. Come with your questions!

Dr. Leah Leone Anderson translates literature and criticism from Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Her scholarship includes the monograph Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner (Bloomsbury, 2024) and the book chapter "A Battle of Expectations: A Room of One’s Own’s Resistance to Borges’s Anti-Feminist Translation Strategies" (Bloomsbury, 2025). Her most recent translation work includes 16 chapters from The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges (2024) and Vicente Lecuna's A Promising Past: Remodeling Fictions in Parque Central, Caracas (U of Pittsburgh, June 2025). She holds a PhD in Spanish American Literature and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Phillips Hall
120 (CLCL)
16 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
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