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Personal profile
Biography
Cecilia holds an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and a PhD in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia (2007). She has taught literary translation at MA level at both Middlesex University and the University of East Anglia. Her original poetry has appeared in various journals such as New Welsh Review and Poetry Wales, as well as anthologised in The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, 2003). Her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry into English have won various awards, including First Prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition and a commendation in the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation, and have appeared in Comparative Criticism (CUP, 2000), Modern Poetry in Translation (2005, 2010), and Alejandra (a volume of essays on Pizarnik published by Syracuse University Press, 2010). Her research into the process of translating Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry has been published in Árbol de Alejandra: Pizarnik Reassessed, edited by Fiona Mackintosh with Karl Posso (Tamesis, 2007). She has also published the following volumes of translated poetry with Waterloo Press: Selected Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik (2010), Solos y solas / Men and Women Alone by Tamara Kamenszain (2010) and Ronda de noche / Night Watch by Ana Becciú (2010) and Tamara Kamenszain’s El eco de mi madre / The Echo of my Mother (2012). Her translations of excerpts of the Diarios de Alejandra Pizarnik and a selection of Pizarnik's prose texts appeared in Music and Literature No. 6 (2015). In 2019 Ugly Duckling Presse published her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik's The Last Innocence and The Lost Adventures.
Projects
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Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ AHRC-Funded OWRI Programme
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/10/19 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
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British Insititute of Persian Studies Research Grant
The British Institute of Persian Studies
22/07/18 → 28/07/18
Project: Research
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2018 International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School (Latvian)
1/05/18 → 31/08/18
Project: Other
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2018 International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School (Estonian)
1/05/18 → 31/08/18
Project: Other
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Does my translation have an accent? Exophonic Translation and the Experience of Language
Rossi, C. & Borelli, E., 10 Dec 2024, Reading in Translation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Bridging Communities Affected by Past Conflict: Translation and the Processes of Memory
Rossi, C., 31 Aug 2023, Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: Memory Studies and Translation Studies in Dialogue. Jünke, C. & Schyns, D. (eds.). Routledge, p. 234-247 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Review of 'Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas' by Ellen Jones
Rossi, C., Oct 2023, In: MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. 69, 3, p. 584-587 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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At the Intersection of the Writing of Translations and Memory: Bridging Communities Affected by Past Conflict
Rossi, C., 30 May 2022, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory. Deane-Cox, S. & Spiessens, A. (eds.). Routledge, p. 90-105 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Translating Poetry
Nikolaou, P. & Rossi, C., Mar 2022, The Cambridge Handbook of Translation. Malmkjaer, K. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 480-498 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
5 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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"Workshop Talk Shop", panel discussion part of "Write the World 2025: A Day of Translation" organised by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
Cecilia Rossi (Speaker)
27 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Translational Relationships: Embodying Dialogue and Translating with Care
Cecilia Rossi (Chair)
21 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Translating with care
Cecilia Rossi (Host)
8 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop or seminar
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Etnodiscursividades II. Escritura, traducción y edición en Lenguas Originarias.
Cecilia Rossi (Speaker)
23 Apr 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Directionality in Translation: Theory and Practice
Cecilia Rossi (Organiser)
27 Mar 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference