Topic: Blogposts

Helen Vassallo (Exeter) writes about her workshop 'What is “feminist translation”, and why does it matter?'

"Translators are often invisible to their readers; however, some translators take a paratextual approach to translation." Eleanor Fillingham writes for the Feminist Translation blog.

For many translators, writing begins as an act of listening — a quiet, precise labour of carrying someone else’s voice across the threshold of language and culture.

From January to June 2025, I undertook with a group of four second-year students in German at the University of Oxford a translation of the short story ‘Werde, die Du bist!’ (1894) by the German writer Hedwig Dohm.

The Feminist Translation Network (FTN) asks a clear and straightforward question: What is feminist translation, in practice, in the twenty-first century? The investigators are aware that there is no straightforward answer. ...

Leilani Willis (University of Warwick) reflects on the Network's recent event, which brought together a group of translators to read from and discuss their current works-in-progress which respond in various ways to the brief of a feminist translation project.

Hilary Brown reflects on the first year of the network.

How does post-editing – the act of revising machine-translated output – affect the feminist voice in translation? My PhD research into contemporary Russian poetry and machine translation has led to me ...

Mazal Oaknín of University College London writes about a session on feminist translation for postgraduate students.

On 7 November 2024, Dr Gabriela Saldanha (University of Oslo), Dr Olga Castro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/University of Warwick) and Dr Hilary Brown (University of Birmingham) ran a Hot Topic roundtable ...