Faculty Member, Department of Modern Languages
University of Portsmouth, School of Languages and Area Studies
Lecturer in Translation
Thesis Title: Translation in Lydia Davis's work
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Carol O'Sullivan
Bran Nicol |
About
My academic interests are mainly centered on the interfaces between translation and other forms of cultural production. I am particularly interested in how authors use translation, especially retranslation. Future projects include an analysis of author-translators in the Francophone tradition. I am also working on translation in film and media, focusing on remakes and multiple translations of the same text.
I completed my PhD at the University of Portsmouth, where I taught on the MA Translation in the academic year 2011-2012.
My PhD evaluated the relationship between Lydia Davis's writing and her translation. She is the American translator of Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and most recently Gustave Flaubert, as well as many other French writers, and also the writer of several short story collections and a novel. Arguing against a traditional notion of translation as training for writing, I propose that her translations act as a graft on her oeuvre of stories. The translations become her work, but remain recognisably distinct. This intertextual grafting takes place in other forms in Davis's work, mirroring and complementing her translations. I am currently adapting my thesis into a monograph.
I co-organised the conference ‘Framing the Self: Anxieties of Identity in Literature & Culture, 1800 to the Present Day’, held at the University of Portsmouth on 21 May 2010.
In the academic year 2010-2011 I was Associate Teaching Fellow in Translation at the University of Exeter, where I taught on the MA in Translation and undergraduate translation courses.
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