境外专家系列讲座（第三期）

境外专家系列讲座（第三期）

境外专家系列讲座（第三期）

(Academic Schedule for BrianJames Baer)

1. Brief Introduction to theSpeaker

Brian James Baer isProfessor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, where heteaches translation-related courses at the undergraduate, Master’s, anddoctoral levels. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS), general editor of theKent State Scholarly Monograph Series in Translation Studies, and co-editor,with Michelle Woods of the book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation(Bloomsbury).  He is author of themonographs Other Russias (2009),which was  a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the AmericanLibrary Association in 2011, and Translationand the Making of Modern Russian Literature (2015). In addition, he hasedited a number of collected volumes: Beyondthe Ivory Tower: Re-thinking Translation Pedagogy, with Geoffrey Koby(2003), Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts:Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia (2011), No Good without Reward: The  Writings of Liubov Krichevskaya (2011), RussianWriters on Translation. An Anthology, with Natalia Olshanskaya  (2013), and Researching Translation and Interpreting, with Claudia Angelelli(2015). He is also the translator of Juri Lotman’s final book-length work, The Unpredictable Workings of Culture (2013). He is currently working on an annotated translation of Andrei Fedorov’s1953 Introduction to Translation Theory.

2. Lecture

Topic：The State of Translation Criticism:Results of a Preliminary Study of Newspaper Reviews

Speaker：BrianJames Baer (Kent State University, USA)

Time： 13:30, May 18

Venue：LectureHall, CFL(外语楼报告厅)

3. Short-termcourse at SMU

Audience:Students of translation; the entire faculty and other students having interest