Aspects of Practice - Jen Calleja and Delphine Grass: Creative Translation

Join us for two talks on creative translation:
Delphine Grass: 'Off Script and Onto the Page: Translation Between Creation and Critique'
Jen Calleja: 'The Life-Art of Translation - The Literary Translator as Artist'
This event will be chaired by Karen Leeder, Convenor of the Oxford Masters in Creative Translation.This event is part of 'Aspects of Practice', the public strand of the new University of Oxford Masters in Creative Translation. 'Aspects of Practice' is delivered in partnership with The Queen's College Translation Exchange.It is open to all and tickets are free.The event will be held in the Noel Salter Room, New College at 5.30pm on Wednesday 25th November 2026.About the speakers
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode, and the novel Vehicle (a Granta Book of the Year). As a translator of German-language literature, she has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2020 and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2018, and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Her translations include works by Dorothee Elmiger, Michelle Steinbeck, Gregor Hens and Marion Poschmann.Delphine Grass is Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at Lancaster University, where she serves as Principal Investigator on the AHRC/BRAID-funded project "Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue." Her research explores the intersections between creative-critical translation practices, environmental humanities, and digital media. Her recent publications include Translation as Creative-Critical Practice (Cambridge UP, 2023) and, with Lily Robert-Folley, she co-edited a special issue on 'The Translation Memoir' (2024).Creative Translation Image (C) Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.