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The Disease of Translation
Thursday 29 April, 5pm (GMT)
Karen Leeder, Oxford
Matthew Reynolds, Oxford
Literature of quarantine, Covid-19, and the aesthetics of old age and illness. How have modern writers and translators brought the language of medicine into the texture of poetry and fiction?
Karen Leeder is an award-winning translator, a writer and leading British scholar of German culture. She is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford, as well as a member of the Academy of Europe. Matthew Reynolds is Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at the University of Oxford, and a prize-winning novelist. He is founder and chair of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation research centre.
