Topic: Blogposts

Matilde Miraglia explores how gender, maternity and translation converge in Gabriela Mistral’s poetry to recover obscured female agency and reframe her work within a feminist interpretive space.

The impressive turnout for an event on feminist approaches to literary translation indicates a significant interest from the public.

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our Anthology of New Feminist Translations. Earlier this year, we asked six translators – Marilyn Booth, Ruth Donnelly, Seán McDonagh, Elete Nelson-Fearon, Georgia Wall and ...

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.