Christopher E Larkosh

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Portuguese, Faculty Member

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, Director, Tagus Press

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I teach graduate and undergraduate seminars in Lusophone literatures and cultures, Portuguese language, Portuguese-English translation, literary theory and cultural analysis as a Full Professor in the Department of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Research interests: Lusophone literatures and cultures in global context (Portugal, Brazil, Asia, Africa, North America); comparative literary studies (Québec, Southern Cone, Central Europe, Turkey, South and East Asia); literary and cultural theory; translation and (trans)cultural studies; bi- and multilingual writing; gender/sexuality; studies in ethnicity and migration.
Phone: +1 508 910 6291 (LArts 398-I)
Address: Department of Portuguese
285 Old Westport Rd.,
Dartmouth, MA 02747
USA

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James S. Holmes, Translation Studies and the Queer Ethics of the First Person

Translating for Sexual Equality, 2017

The academic discipline known as translation studies is already queer, and has been since its ver... more The academic discipline known as translation studies is already queer, and has been since its very inception; conceived by openly gay scholar and activist James S. Holmes to work between the borders of academic categorization, translation studies still draws on these early maps and models to imagine itself and its continually shifting coordinates, often at the margins of theoretical activity. Homes was as concerned with life as a gay activist and its burgeoning leather scene as he was with translating Dutch-language poetry with his Dutch partner, to say nothing of producing the seminal research to the development of translation studies and a separate academic discipline. Is there a particular ethics of speaking of the self and its desires in this particular context? To answer this question, this paper revisits the professional activity and figure of the translator, a complex cultural and linguistic entity often characterized by desires, passions and political engagements that go far beyond the act of translation.

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