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MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation

Susan BernofskySusan Bernofsky

Klapper 706, 718-997-4603
susan.bernofsky@qc.cuny.edu

 

Award-winning literary translator Susan Bernofsky (PhD Princeton University, Comparative Literature; MFA Fiction Writing, Washington University) has translated 17 books, including six by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori and others. She is currently Chair of the PEN Translation Committee and sits on the PEN board.  She received the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize as well as awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the PEN Translation Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lannan Foundation.  The author of the book Foreign Words: Translator-Authors in the Age of Goethe (Wayne State UP, 2005), she is currently writing a biography of Robert Walser as well as working on a novel of her own.  As a teacher, she emphasizes the importance of helping students discover their own potential as readers, writers and thinkers.  She has taught at Princeton University, Bard College, Sarah Lawrence College and the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

 
 

 Office Information

 
Nicole Cooley, MFA Director
Creative Writing and Literary Translation
Department of English
Office: Klapper 702
Phone: 718-997-4671
Email: nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu


Spring 2013 Reading Series

A Talk by Translator and Poet Mary Maxwell
Monday, February 25, 4:30 pm
Klapper Hall 708
Co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department

A Reading and Discussion by Poets and Translators Aliki Barnstone And Willis Barnstone
Monday, March 4, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

The Publishing Lowdown: A Roundtable
Tuesday, March 19, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

A Reading by Fiction Writer Siri Hustvedt
Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall
Co-sponsored by the English Department and Writing at Queens

The New Salon in Queens: A Reading By Poet Marie Howe
Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 pm
Campbell Dome
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America

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A Reading by Poet
Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Wednesday, May 8, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

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Writers-in-Residence Read New Work Inspired by the Armstrong Archives

Saturday, May 11, 1:00 pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum Garden, 34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY

Readings by the 2013 MFA Program Graduates
Thursday, May 30, 2 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall

Readings will be followed by receptions and book signings. All events are free and open to the public.






 

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