Esther Allen teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center and at Baruch College (CUNY), where she directs the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Her translation of Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto, won the 2017 National Translation Award and she was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Her essays and translations have appeared in The New York Review Daily, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Bomb, and elsewhere. Read her work at www.estherallen.com.
Programming
Reading and Conversation
Thu, May 2, 2024,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet
Celebration
Wed, Nov 17, 2021,
05:30 PM –
06:30 PM
PEN International: 100 Years Celebrating Literature and Promoting Freedom of Expression
Conference
Translating the Future
Conversation
Mon, Apr 12, 2021,
07:30 PM –
09:00 PM
Translation Is a Mode = Translation Is an Anti-neocolonial Mode: Readings and Roundtable Discussion
Conference and Conversation Series
Fri, Sep 25, 2020,
10:00 AM –
12:00 PM
Translating the Future Finale: A Flight of Tokarczuk Translators
Conference and Conversation Series
Wed, Sep 23, 2020,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
Translating the Future Finale: Postmonolingual New York with Ava Chin, Jasmine Claude-Narcisse, Damion Searls, and Lisandro Pérez
Conference and Conversation Series
Tue, Sep 22, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future Finale: “On the Elusive Art of Translation,” with Kate Briggs and Tracy K. Smith, moderated by Magdalena Edwards
Conversation
Tue, Sep 15, 2020,
12:00 PM –
01:00 PM
Translating the Future: “Activist Translation,” with Anton Hur, Sevinç Türkkan, and Jen Hofer
Conversation
Tue, Sep 8, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Translating Trauma” with Ellen Elias-Bursac, Aaron Robertson and Julia Sanches, moderated by Queenie Sukhadia
Conversation
Tue, Sep 1, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Untranslating the Classics,” with Laurie Patton, Gopal Sukhu & Vivek Narayanan
Conversation
Tue, Aug 25, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Language as Polis,” with Madeleine Cohen, LaTasha Diggs & Mary Ann Newman
Conversation
Tue, Aug 18, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings III,” with Janet Hong, Pierre Joris & María José Giménez
Conversation
Tue, Aug 11, 2020,
10:00 AM –
11:30 AM
Translating the Future: “Building Translator Communities and Communities for Translation,” with Paige Aniyah Morris, Shuchi Saraswat, Allison Markin Powell, & M Lynx Qualey
Conversation
Tue, Jul 28, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Channeling Ghost Languages of Europe” with Martin Puchner and Peter Constantine, moderated by Tess Lewis
Conversation
Tue, Jul 21, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings II” with Boris Dralyuk, Eric Tsimi, and Rajiv Mohabir
Conversation
Tue, Jul 14, 2020,
10:00 AM –
11:00 AM
Translating the Future: “Subtitling Subtleties,” with Darcy Paquet, Linda Hoaglund, and Xiaolu Guo
Conference and Conversation Series
Tue, Jul 7, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "21st-Century Translation: What Has the Future Brought Us?" with Gabriella Page-Fort, Samantha Schnee, and Chad W. Post
Conference and Conversation Series
Tue, Jun 30, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Queer Literature, Queer Legacies: Looking Toward the Future of LGBTQ Translation" with Achy Obejas and Sean Gasper Bye, moderated by Elizabeth Rose
Conference
Tue, Jun 23, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings I" Mónica de la Torre and Jeffrey Angles, with Bruna Dantas Lobato
Conference
Tue, Jun 16, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Translating Plays and Playing With Translation” featuring Aya Ogawa and Jeremy Tiang
Conference
Tue, Jun 9, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "A Manifesto For Our Time" featuring Elizabeth Lowe, Matthew Harrington, and Larissa Kyzer
Conference
Tue, Jun 2, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Children’s Literature in Translation" with Lawrence Schimel and Daniel Hahn
Conference
Tue, May 26, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Global Ecopoetics: Poetry, Translation, Climate Change & Public Health," with Forrest Gander & Raquel Salas Rivera
Conference
Tue, May 19, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "Translating the Uncertain Present," Madhu Kaza in conversation with Lina Mounzer
Conference
Tue, May 12, 2020,
01:30 PM –
02:30 PM
Translating the Future: "From 1970 to 2020: Translation Transformations" with David Bellos and Karen Emmerich
Discussion
Wed, Mar 1, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Revisiting Eastern Europe: The Politics of Translation
Reading and Conversation
Fri, Oct 21, 2016 –
Fri, Oct 21, 2016
Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016), A Celebration
Seminar
Wed, Apr 13, 2016,
04:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Translation Seminar with Esther Allen: The Perils of Polyglossia
