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Joanna Trzeciak

Associate Professor of Russian & Polish Translation

Joanna Trzeciak received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2005. Her research interests include translation and 20th century Russian prose, cultural aspects of translation and intersection between philosophy and translation studies. She is currently revising her dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov as a Self-translating Author for publication and working on a book-length project on Nabokov and Freud. 

She has translated a short chapter of Nabokov's biography Conclusive Evidence into Russian (Zvezda, 1999) and poems of Joseph Brodsky into English (Anthology of Jewish Russian Literature, 2007). Her translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Tri-Quarterly, The New Republic, Harper's, TLS, Paris Review and Poetry among others.

She has translated and edited four book-length translations from the Polish including Miracle Fair: Selected poems of Wislawa Szymborska (W.W. Norton, Winner of Held Translation Prize) and Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz (W. W. Norton, 2011).

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:

Translation theory

Nabokov and Freud

Construction of Race in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema

Tolstoy on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence

Russian through Cinema

The Teaching of Translation Theory

Twentieth Century Russian Literature
AREAS OF PUBLICATION:

Comparative Literature

Translation Studies

Literary Translation

Research Areas
  • Literary and Cultural Translation
  • Translation Theory
OFFICE
Applied Linguistics, Institute for
Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies
OFFICE HOURS

Spring 2013:

  • And by appointment
Office: 306-D Satterfield Hall
CONTACT INFO
jtrzecia@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Spring 2013
  • RUSS 32501 - 001 Russian Literature In English
  • RUSS 42096 - 003 Individual Investigation
  • RUSS 42211 - 001 Adv Compos And Conversation
  • RUSS 62979 - 001 Case Study In Translation
  • TRST 80299 - 006 Dissertation Ii
Summer 2013
  • TRST 80199 - 036 Dissertation I
  • TRST 80299 - 036 Dissertation Ii
Fall 2013
  • RUSS 12201 - 001 Elementary Russian I
  • TRST 30230 - 001 Approaches To Translation
  • RUSS 62240 - 001 Lit And Cultural Translation
  • TRST 80199 - 005 Dissertation I
  • TRST 80299 - 005 Dissertation Ii
EXPERTISE
  • Russian and Polish Translation