Brian James Baer: Gulag Translations
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Date: 2014-05-25

Brian James Baer  Gulag Translations: Re-thinking Translation History from the Margins 

Plenary presented to the EST Congress in Germersheim, Germany, August 30, 2013

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Kent State University, where he serves as Coordinator of Graduate Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1996. His research interests include Russian translation history, translation and censorship, discourse analysis in translation studies, and the pedagogy of translation. He is the co-editor of Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy (John Benjamins, 2003) and the author of the monograph Other Russias (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Dr. Baer is the founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies (John Benjamins) and the general editor of the KSU Monograph Series in Translation Studies. His most recent works include the book-length translation No Good without Reward: Selected Writings of Liubov Krichevskaia (U of Toronto, 2011) and the edited volume Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia (John Benjamins, 2011). He has recently completed an anthology, Russian Writers on Translation, which is forthcoming from St. Jerome. Dr. Baer currently sits on the board of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).