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[PAST EVENT] LISA DILLMAN & SILVIA TANDECIARZ
Location
Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Memorial Hall, Studio Theater601 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
- Free food
- Open to the public
LISA DILLMAN & SILVIA TANDECIARZ
Tuesday, March 18, 7:00 PM, PBK Hall Studio Theatre, Free Reception & Book Sale to Follow
ABOUT LISA DILLMAN
Lisa Dillman is based in Georgia, where she translates from Spanish and teaches at Emory University. Some of her publications include Touch System by Alejandra Costamagna, multiple books by Andrés Barba (Rain Over Madrid; August October; Luminous Republic; and Such Small Hands, winner of the 2018 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize), The Bitch and Abyss by Pilar Quintana (both of which were National Book Awards finalists) and six books by Yuri Herrera (Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies, A Silent Fury, Kingdom Cons, Ten Planets and Season of the Swamp). She is an avid but mediocre swimmer and dog freak.
ABOUT SILVIA R. TANDECIARZ
Silvia R. Tandeciarz holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. She is Chancellor Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Vice Dean for Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at William & Mary, where she has worked since 1999. A translator, poet, and scholar in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies, her research focuses on the role memory plays in advancing democracy and human rights in post-conflict settings. Most recently, her English-language translation from Spanish, Taino, and Yoruba of Juana Goergen's collection of poetry, Sea in my Bones (2023, the87press), received the Poetry Book Society’s Winter 2023 Translation Choice Award.
Sponsored by: W&M Creative Writing Program