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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I slowly, painstakingly read Eileen Chang’s 《怨女》I have been struck time and time again by the sentences / images / contexts which would be difficult to translate to an English of the 21st century. Today it was this: “…而时间这东西一心一意，就光想把她也变成个老妇人。” 🫠

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’re thrilled to share that our contributors Isabel Zapata and Robin Myers have received the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation 2026 from the @poetrytranslation.bsky.social ! Read our excerpt from the collection, first published in 2020, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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In Puget Sound by Isabel Zapata - Words Without Borders

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A word I didn’t think possible until I came across it whilst translating: Hindbrain

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The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"It’s about questioning the processes of translation—the binaries, the structures we were placed into and continue to reproduce." Read "Why Keep the Literary Experience Within Your Comfort Zone? A Conversation with Lúcia Collischonn." with @lucycolli.bsky.social

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Latest in the deluge of bad news for higher ed, Charles University in Prague has announced it is closing down its prestigious MA in translation studies Czech Colleagues are organizing a petition (link below), with helpful English explanations on how to fill it in: translatologie.cz/english

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In Support of Saving the Institute of Translation Studies, Charles University

An open letter and petition in support of saving the Institute of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The 花 character (hua, flower) showing up in a WIP, filling my screen, right in front of the carnations given to me yesterday… has to be auspicious, doesn’t it?

A picture of a table with notebooks and an open laptop, a vase of carnations sprouting up from behind the laptop, silhouetted against the window. The laptop displays the Chinese character 花.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Irish translator and scholar @ellenfcorbett.bsky.social explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the minoritisation of the Irish language and its 'definitely endangered' status. Read the full essay here:

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Against English: The Irish Poets Who Have Refused Translation

Irish translator and scholar Ellen Corbett explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the…

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A new favourite word from Chinese class with Amanda today: 磨合 (móhé): to break in, wear in or, if you are two people, to rub/grind/polish/wear (磨) + join/fit together/whole (合) = to learn to get along, to wear against each other until you become a together

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Many thanks to the Feminist Translation Network for a stupendous event!

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I got to meet Nicky Harman!!! If you'd told me two years ago that I would have spoken about my research in front of one of my translation heroes, I would have SCOFFED. And yet, strange things happen in this world. Many thanks to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's for hosting Translation Day!

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Another week, another attempt to write some nice-sounding blather - this week, about my reactions to learning about ethics of care and the strange connections it led me to (which I will not include in my thesis) xiaokeai.substack.com/p/caring-abo...

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caring about ethics

Thirty-two years ago Carol Gilligan wrote a “Letter to Readers” which prefaced the new edition of her book In a Different Voice.

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Audrey Eileen Kelly @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I can't believe my luck - two women I look up to, in the same room, teaching things that I want to learn! Very much looking forward to this, thanks to @writingchinese.bsky.social for organizing! writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/writi...

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Writing Lives: from China in the 1930s to Britain in the 2020s | The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

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