Translating Home in the Global South (PDF)

Isabel C. Gómez is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her book Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (2023) received a 2022 Helen Tarter First Book Subvention Prize from the ACLA. She served as the President of the ICLA Committee on Translation Studies 2020-2023. Currently, her research focuses on the intersection of climate activism and translingual poetics; she has been recipient of a National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship award for her next monograph Divest from English: Eco-Translation and Translingual Repair.

Marlene Hansen Esplin is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University. Her main research interests are translation studies and US and Latin American literatures. Recent projects include "Approaching Literary Self-Translation in the United States and Latin America" for The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation, a review essay on "The 'Outward Turn' in Translation Studies" for Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, and an article examining intersections between translation and ethnography in English translations of Cabeza de Vaca's Relación for Translation Review. She is the Vice President of the ICLA Committee on Translation Studies.