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Delphine Grass
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Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Eco-translation | Comparative Literature | Languages | AI | Biosemiotics
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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
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Join us for this fantastic workshop by Lily Robert-Foley on the 2nd of July! Online and free 📢✨

To register, follow the link on the website or use the QR code: wp.lancs.ac.uk/transcultura...

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#translation #creativecritical #languages #digitalhumanities
Bright coloured poster with details of workshop with workshop description: Experimental Translation: the work of translation in the age of Algorithmic Production posits that the threat of machine translation has given way to an alternative, experimental practice of translation that reflects upon and hijacks traditional paradigms. In much the same way that photography initiated a break in artistic practices with the threat of an absolute fidelity to the real, machine translation has paradoxically liberated human translators to err, to diverge, to tamper with the original, blurring creation and imitation with cyborg collage and appropriation. This shift has also inspired a shift in methodology, and the Experimental Translation monograph is accompanied by a handbook of experimental, creative-critical (to employ the term used in Delphine Grass’s 2023, Translation as Creative-Critical Practice) “translation procedures” to try at home or abroad, in the classroom, the laboratory, the garden, the dance hall, the city, the kitchen, the library, the shopping center, the supermarket, the train, the bus, the airplane, the post office, on the radio, on your phone, on your computer, and on the internet. In this talk and workshop, I would like to practice with participants a procedure that did not find its way into the handbook: globetranslation. Globetranslation consists in selecting a single word, translating that word into as many languages as possible, searching for those translated words in unilingual dictionaries in that word’s own language & then using machine translation to translate those definitions back into English. This procedure adopts the conceptual writing technique of appropriation (Acker, Place, Dworkin, Goldsmith) as a way of doing terminological research across languages. Time and desire permitting, this procedure may even take us further, to individual and collective poetic creation and discussions about the politics of appropriation and language learning.
June 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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It’s a wrap ✨
I have been so honoured to be one of the keynote speakers at the III Lisbon Spring School in translation studies, such a wonderful opportunity to meet and speak to so many great international researchers at all career stages! Obrigada a todas/os!
June 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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C’est plutôt “ou la mort”, non? “French Republic, or Death”, probably echoing these 1789ish Jacobin tracts/posters
May 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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In print! ✨ Congrats to the editors, very proud that my chapter ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig's “In die Natur” & Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass as Planetary Eco-translation Practices’ features in this wonderful volume! #translation #envhum #literaturesky
April 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Venise beauté
April 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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At the amazing “Traduction Augmentée” conference and exhibition in Venice last week.
April 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Excited and honoured for the invitation to speak about my ‘Translating the Anthropocene’ chapter at the University of Venice next week! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
March 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Delighted to share the publication of my chapter: ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig's “In die Natur” & Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass as Planetary Eco-translation Practices’ in this 👌 vol. ed. by Ricarda Vidal&Madeleine Campbell.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Photo of book cover. Title “the experience of translation” Photo of first page of chapter.
February 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#Languages and #translation lovers, I give you my favourite Dutch museum find of 2025 (that I will regret not buying for the rest of my life): The Tower of Bauble. Belated Happy New Year! 🎉 @boijmans
January 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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‘This is a vital critique of translation theory, & the opening of a new chapter in translation studies: a debate around “weak” or “tender” theory of translation. What an exciting moment for the discipline.’ 🙏 for the thoughtful book review, Kasia Szymanska ✨📚 www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Looking forward to talking about #translation memoirs, seriality and #LLM this Thursday at Université Paris Cite’s Collectif Variation with Lily Robert-Foley. Can ChatGPT write its own translation memoir? Let’s experiment! 🧪📚👩🏻‍🔬
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November 19, 2024 at 10:35 AM