Dora Zhang is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written on topics including Proust and photography, Woolf and philosophy of language, and Barthes’s travels in China. She is currently at work on a book about problems of description in modernist literature.
Dora Zhang
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
Always Already Translated
Here are some common metaphors for thinking about translation: as a ferryman (a word that derives from the Latin transferre), as a new set of garments, and as resurrection or afterlife. These formulations all assume that an original text composed in a particular language is subsequently translated into other languages. In her new book, Born […]
