Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire - Paperback

by Brian James Baer (Author)

This ground-breaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Queer Studies. This book is essential reading for advanced students, scholars and researchers in translation studies, gender and sexuality studies, and related areas.

Author Biography

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, Ohio. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and coeditor, with Michelle Woods, of the series Literatures, Cultures, Translation. His most recent publications include the monograph Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature; the collected volumes Translation in Russian Contexts (with Susanna Witt) and Queering Translation, Translating the Queer (with Klaus Kaindl); and the translated volumes Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (by Juri Lotman) and Red Crosses (by Sasha Filipenko, with Ellen Vayner).