Webinar organised by the Department of Comparative Literature at King's College London on "Teaching Translation Literacy" by Dr Aria Fani (University of Washington, Seattle). Dr Fani will be in conversation with Dr Julia Hartley (KCL).

Dr Aria Fani is assistant professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. His teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature and translation studies. He is currently working on a book, under contract with the University of Texas Press, titled Spaces between Nations: Afghans, Iranians, and the Making of Persian Literature. Aria serves as a deputy editor of the journal of Iranian Studies. He also works as a social advocate for the rights of non-citizen Americans.

Dr Julia Hartley is a recently appointed Lecturer in Comparative Literature at KCL. Prior to joining King's, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, where she completed a project on French writing on Iran in the long nineteenth century. She holds a doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford (2016) and an MA in Iranian Studies from SOAS (2018). Her first book Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy(Legenda, 2019) has been called “an irresistible invitation to love literature” (Modern Philology) and “an important example for literary comparisons to come” (Modern Language Review). Julia was also nominated in 2021 as a BBC New Generation Thinker and as such contributes regularly to BBC Radio's 3 Free Thinking.

For further information or questions, please email to: yawen.li@kcl.ac.uk or maria.marino@kcl.ac.uk.