Corine Tachtiris

A scholar, practitioner, and teacher of translation, Corine Tachtiris is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. She translates primarily the work of contemporary women authors from the Francophone Caribbean, Africa, and Canada as well as the Czech Republic. Her translation of Frieda Ekotto’s Don’t Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella was published by Bucknell University Press in 2019, and her translations of short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in various literary journals. Her research focuses on the intersection between critical race studies and translation studies; her monograph Translation and Race will be released early next year by Routledge. She has taught translation theory and practice at several institutions, including translation workshops and a graduate seminar on race, gender, and sexuality in translation. She is prose translation editor at The Massachusetts Review and the incoming vice president of the American Literary Translators Association.