Michelle Woods

Moderator

Dr. Michelle Woods is full Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka (2014), Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation (2012), and Translating Milan Kundera (2006). She is the editor of a book of essays on literature and translation, Authorizing Translation (2017), and co-editor of Teaching Literature in Translation (2023). She is writing a non-academic book about the female translators of Anna Karenina: Reading Anna. She is co-editor of the book series for Bloomsbury: Literatures, Cultures, Translation. Her translations have appeared in Granta and Words Without Borders, and she loves to teach as much dark and funny Central European literature as she can.