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Contributors
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Translating Literature: The German Tradition (1977), Translation,
History, Culture (1992) and Translation, Rewriting and the
Manipulation of Literary Fame (1993). He began his academic career
in Belgium, taught in many countries including Hong Kong and South
Africa and was Professor of Germanic Languages at the University
of Texas at Austin from 1984. His final essays are included in
Constructing Cultures (1998), written jointly with Susan Bassnett.
G.J.V. Prasad is Assistant Professor at the Centre of Linguistics and
English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is also
a writer and has published a novel, A Clean Breast (1993), and a
book of poems, In Delhi Without a Visa (1996).
Sherry Simon directs the Humanities Doctoral Programme and teaches
in the French Department of Concordia University in Montreal. She
is the author of Le Trafic des langues: traduction et culture dans la
littérature Québecoise (1994) and Gender in Translation: Cultural
Identity and the Politics of Transmission (1996), and editor of Culture
in Transit: Translating the Literature of Quebec (1995). She is
currently preparing a volume provisionally entitled After
Translation: The Esthetics of Cultural Hybridity.
Maria Tymoczko is Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published extensively
on Irish literature and on translation studies. She is the author of
The Irish ‘Ulysses’ and writes about James Joyce as a post-colonial
writer. Her most recent book, Translation in a Postcolonial Context:
Early Irish Literature in English Translation, is in press.
Else Ribeiro Pires Vieira is an Associate Professor of the Post-graduate School
of Comparative Literature and of the Department of Anglo-Germanic
Languages at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she is also
the Convener of Postgraduate Studies in Literature and Linguistics. Her
major field of interest is translation as intercultural transfer on which she
has published widely in many countries. At present, she is the co-ordinator
in Brazil of an international project on the interface between critical and
cultural studies. Her most recent book is Teorizando e Contextualizando
a Tradução (1996).
Vanamala Viswanatha teaches translation studies, Indian literatures
and English language teaching in the Department of English,