Please join us this year for our annual Translation Studies Lecture in Honor of Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa on Monday, April 27th at 5pm. This year we are delighted to have acclaimed, multilingual translators Camille Bloomfield and Daniel Hahn in conversation about creative and collaborative translation, and their new books, fresh off the press: Bloomfield’s La Machine and Hahn's If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. It is sure to be a lively and engaging conversation.
The event will be held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Refreshments will be served. For any questions, please email Prof. Rachel Galvin (rachelgalvin@uchicago.edu).
Camille Bloomfield works at the intersection of poetry, performance, digital writing, translation, spoken word, and research. She is Associate Professor of Literature at Université Paris Cité and co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective. A translator from Italian and English, her texts have been published in collections, journals, and anthologies, and featured in performances in Belgium, Canada, France, and Switzerland. She often collaborates with composers, including Nicolas Tzortzis. She is the author of Poèmes typodermiques (2023) with photos by Nicolas Southon and a preface by Michèle Métail, and a translation-recreation (with Valentin Decoppet) of La Machine by Georges Perec and Eugen Helmlé (2025).
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with over a hundred books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) include wide-ranging fiction and non-fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas, as well as children's books and plays. He is the author of Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, and just published in April 2026, If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. He is currently translating an Angolan novel and co-editing (with Padma Viswanathan) The Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories.