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Jane Marie Todd


TRANSLATES: French

Jane Marie Todd is the winner of the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation 2010 translation prize for nonfiction, for her translation of Dominique Charpin's Reading and Writing in Babylon.

A full-time translator and copy editor, she has translated more than fifty books in the fields of art criticism, philosophy, history, biography/autobiography, literary criticism, and women's studies. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and has taught at Reed College and the University of Oregon. Her translation of Benjamin Stora's Algeria, 1830-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2001) was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Currently working on:

Saladin, Anne-Marie Eddé. Harvard University Press.

The Hezbollah, Dominique Avon and Anaïs-Trissa Khatchadourian. Harvard University Press.

In North Sumatra, an Unknown Group: The Kalasan Batak, Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller. Barbier-Mueller Museum.

Translations (selected)

The Great Image Has No Form, or The Nonobject through Painting, François Jullien. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Art of the Defeat, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac. Getty Research Institute, 2009.

Frenchness and the African Diaspora, edited by Charles Tshimanga et al. Indiana University Press, 2009. Essays by Nicolas Bancel, Ahmed Boubeker, Didier Lapeyronnie, and Achille Mbembe.

The Annales School: An Intellectual History, Andre Burgière. Cornell University Press, 2009.

La Volupté du Goût: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour, exhibition catalog. Somogy, 2008.

The Cubism Reader, edited by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten. University of Chicago Press, 2008. Primary materials on the Cubist movement.


The Wake of War: Encounters with the People of Iraq and Afghanistan, Anne Nivat. Beacon Press, 2006.

Colette, or, The World's Flesh, Julia Kristeva. Columbia University Press, 2004.

The Poet and the King: Jean de la Fontaine and His Century, Marc Fumaroli. University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France since 1968, Frédéric Martel. Stanford University Press, 2000.

Conversations with Picasso, Brassaï. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France, Michel Winock. Stanford University Press, 1998.

Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration, Georges Didi-Huberman. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

 








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