Delphine Grass
@delphinegrass.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Eco-translation | Comparative Literature | Languages | AI | Biosemiotics
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Delphine Grass
@delphinegrass.bsky.social
· Sep 15
My latest chapter, ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig’s ‘In die Natur‘ and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass‘ as Planetary Eco-Translation Practices’ Free download / Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
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Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
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"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026.
Thank you for sharing widely!
Thank you for sharing widely!
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026.
Thank you for sharing widely!
Thank you for sharing widely!
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Pioneering scientists past and present have broken from the pressures and limitations of human exceptionalist thinking. Charles Darwin, Lynn Margulis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Frans de Waal–their work looms large in my own research (1/3).
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Pioneering scientists past and present have broken from the pressures and limitations of human exceptionalist thinking. Charles Darwin, Lynn Margulis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Frans de Waal–their work looms large in my own research (1/3).
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I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum
October 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum
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Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.
The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Translation Multiples goes to London! Join me on 22 October at 4pm at the University of London (@soasuni.bsky.social), discuss several engaging examples together in an interactive format.
The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
The event is free, but registration is required: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE
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September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
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13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS
A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CTIS Research Seminar 2: A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
Speakers: Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, Anna Lafranchi, University of Warwick, and Kasia Szymanska, University of Manchester
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September 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
13 November: Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social, Anna Lafranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social @warwicktranslation.bsky.social & Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social CTIS
A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
September 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
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As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb!
3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom
£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words
📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com
3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom
£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words
📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com
September 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb!
3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom
£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words
📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com
3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom
£120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words
📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com
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👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
September 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans...
🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 zoe@englishpen.org
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Important work by @britishacademy.bsky.social, keeping track of emerging cold spots, and contracting opportunities for young people who want to make a difference in the world through the study of SHAPE subjects.
Humanities, arts and social sciences degrees are disappearing in many UK regions.
With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.
@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy
With more young people than ever studying close to home, course cuts are narrowing their choices at university.
@timeshighered.bsky.social covers our 'Cold Spots' report today. Read more at https://bit.ly/46e3wOy
Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK
Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns
bit.ly
September 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Important work by @britishacademy.bsky.social, keeping track of emerging cold spots, and contracting opportunities for young people who want to make a difference in the world through the study of SHAPE subjects.
My latest chapter, ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig’s ‘In die Natur‘ and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass‘ as Planetary Eco-Translation Practices’ Free download / Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
My latest chapter, ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig’s ‘In die Natur‘ and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass‘ as Planetary Eco-Translation Practices’ Free download / Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/read-...
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #translation #ecolit
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Today we have "Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!" by @jkdahl.bsky.social
This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d...
#envhist #envhum #japan
This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d...
#envhist #envhum #japan
Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!
Digitizing Toyokuni IV’s 1872 board game, scholars recreated Yokohama’s hybrid modernity, blending history, travel, and playful discovery for students.
niche-canada.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today we have "Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!" by @jkdahl.bsky.social
This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d...
#envhist #envhum #japan
This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d...
#envhist #envhum #japan
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#newbook: "Materiality of Air" (ed. Tatiana Konrad, Exeter Press)
Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw
#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres
Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw
#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres
September 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
#newbook: "Materiality of Air" (ed. Tatiana Konrad, Exeter Press)
Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw
#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres
Full OA access and info: champ.ly/EwXPsOzw
#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #atmospheres
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#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press)
OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
Literature and Botany
An interdisciplinary exploration of how literature and botany intersect through myth, symbolism, and ecology, reflecting human-plant relationships in cultural and environmental contexts.
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press)
OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities
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To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
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Some people have wished I wrote more about the bad old days of silencing and gender violence since I put up that Guardian piece about how normalized it all was in the 1970s-1990s, and, well, I did: Recollections of My Nonexistence. Here are some excerpts.
September 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Some people have wished I wrote more about the bad old days of silencing and gender violence since I put up that Guardian piece about how normalized it all was in the 1970s-1990s, and, well, I did: Recollections of My Nonexistence. Here are some excerpts.
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I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in the @criticalai-journal.bsky.social : read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
The Origins of Generative AI in Transcription and Machine Translation, and Why That Matters
Abstract. In this essay, written in dialogue with the introduction to this special issue, the authors offer a critical history of the development of large language models (LLMs). The essay's goal is t...
read.dukeupress.edu
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in the @criticalai-journal.bsky.social : read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
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This 2025 collection on the political economy of ecology and antiracism includes essays by brilliant scholars - Malcom Ferdinand, Arturo Escobar, Nadia Yala Kisukidi …
Edited by the most amazing Fatima Ouassak!
I hope it gets translated for the anglosphere and beyond!
Edited by the most amazing Fatima Ouassak!
I hope it gets translated for the anglosphere and beyond!
August 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This 2025 collection on the political economy of ecology and antiracism includes essays by brilliant scholars - Malcom Ferdinand, Arturo Escobar, Nadia Yala Kisukidi …
Edited by the most amazing Fatima Ouassak!
I hope it gets translated for the anglosphere and beyond!
Edited by the most amazing Fatima Ouassak!
I hope it gets translated for the anglosphere and beyond!
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The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
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The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990 | Environmental History
Abstract This article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic ...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Loving the sound of this sound/article!
New publication!
Translucence: Some Notations on Sediments, Amber, Toxic Chemicals, and the Possibility of Returns
In collaboration with my friend and sound artist Korana Jelača who composed a piece that accompanies the text. Very experimental
#envhum
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4...
Translucence: Some Notations on Sediments, Amber, Toxic Chemicals, and the Possibility of Returns
In collaboration with my friend and sound artist Korana Jelača who composed a piece that accompanies the text. Very experimental
#envhum
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4...
Edizioni Ca' Foscari
Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Venice University Press
edizionicafoscari.unive.it
August 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Loving the sound of this sound/article!
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UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
August 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...