Translation in the History of Book, Publishing, and Reading: A Roadmap

PhD in Letters, FFyL-UBA. Assosiate researcher for the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) at the Institute of Argentine and American History Dr. Emilio Ravignani (FFyL-UBA/CONICET). Co-directs the Specialization in Literary Translation (Cetralit), Graduate Program at FFyL-UBA. Professor of the seminar “History of Editorial Translation in Argentina” (Cetralit), FFyL-UBA. Professor of the seminar “Translatology and Translation Criticism”, Master's Degree in Foreign Language Literatures and Comparative Literatures (Cetralit), FFyL-UBA. Literatures and Comparative Literatures, FFyL-UBA. Lecturer of the courses “Problemas de Traducción Editorial” in the Diploma on Knowledge and Practices of Publishing and Reading, Faculty of Social Sciences, UBA. Director of the FILOCyT research group (2022-24) “Traductoras e importadoras: una perspectiva de género para la historia de la traducción literaria y editorial en la Argentina moderna (1880-1980)” (Translators and importers: a gender perspective for the history of literary and editorial translation in modern Argentina (1880-1980)). She coordinates the Cátedra Libre de Estudios de Traducción e Importación Literaria in the Extension Area of FFyL-UBA. Among other publications, she has written the book Traductores del exilio. Argentines in Spanish publishing houses: translations, writings by order and linguistic conflict (1974-1983), in the collection “Estudios Latinoamericanos”, Editorial Iberoamericana / Vervuert, Frankfurt-Madrid, 2018.

D. in Literature and MA in Foreign and Comparative Literatures from the University of Buenos Aires, French translator from the Instituto en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández. She specializes in the history of translation and literary relations between Argentina and France during the 19th century. She currently teaches Translation Studies at Lenguas Vivas and at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. Co-director of the Filocyt project “Traductoras e importadoras: una perspectiva de género para la historia de la traducción literaria y editorial en la Argentina moderna (1880-1980)” (Translators and importers: a gender perspective for the history of literary translation and publishing in modern Argentina (1880-1980)) together with Alejandrina Falcón. She is part of the PICT projects “Palabras, voces, miradas femeninas/feministas. Entre lo íntimo, lo éxtimo, lo privado y lo público en la literatura argentina”, directed by Graciela Batticuore, and ‘El lugar de las mujeres en el campo editorial: posiciones, trayectorias y prácticas editoriales en Argentina’, directed by Ivana Mihal.

PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires. Co-director of the Diploma in Knowledge and Practices of Publishing and Reading Fsoc-UBA. Researcher in publishing history at the FCE-UBA and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Unipe). Professor of undergraduate courses and postgraduate seminars on the history of books and publishing, editorial curatorship and Argentine history at national universities and trainer of publishers in the Publishing Degree at the FFyL-UBA. Author of publications on the discipline, including ‘Libros de Buenos Aires a mediados del siglo XX. Problemáticas de mercado, editores y Estado’, in: Viviana Román (editor) La industria editorial argentina en perspectiva histórica. Entre la economía, la política y la cultura, 1946-2018. (Tren en Movimiento, 2021); Editores y Política. Entre el mercado latinoamericano de libros y el primer peronismo (1938-1955) (Tren en Movimiento, 2018) and co-author with Leandro de Sagastizábal of Un editor argentino. Arturo Peña Lillo (Eudeba, 2014).