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Collaborative Translation of Girls and Institutions by Daria Serenko
To close out Season 2, we spoke with three translators—Sasha Karsavina, Philippa Mullins, and Nadezhda Vikulina—about their collaborative translation of…
 • Camellia Pham
24:47
Bonus: Annabel Kim on “What if”
What do we do with a word that means both “if” and “yes”?
 • Camellia Pham
3:51
Annabel Kim on Plasmas
Annabel Kim joins us to talk about Plasmas (Deep Vellum, 2022), Céline Minard’s posthuman sci-fi series of vignettes that read like a syntactical…
 • Camellia Pham
16:52
Bonus: Spencer Lee-Lenfield on translating rhyme across languages
What happens when you translate from a poetic tradition that sidesteps rhyme into one that can’t help but hum in iambic pentameter?
 • Camellia Pham
4:20
Spencer Lee-Lenfield on Biologicity
Spencer Lee-Lenfield brings us Biologicity (Black Ocean, 2024) by South Korean poet Shin Hae-uk, a collection with offbeat turns, twisted logic, and…
 • Camellia Pham
20:30
Bonus: Mark Harman on retitling Kafka
What happens when a title becomes too familiar?
 • Camellia Pham
4:27
Mark Harman on Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories
Mark Harman returns to Kafka with Selected Stories (Harvard University Press, 2024), a collection that combines courtroom logic with surrealist…
 • Camellia Pham
17:33
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Paraphrasis is a podcast dedicated to the art and practice of literary translation, brought to you by a team of graduate students in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard.

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