Sophie Heywood
@heywoodsophie
Associate Professor in French at @UniRdg_Lang. Co-Director @cbcp_UniRdg. Children's publishing/ translation. Children's 68 children68.hypotheses.org
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👋#bookhistory ppl: did you like University of Reading Special Collections and cbcp_UniRdg when you were in attendance of SHARP News #SHARP2024 conference Uni of Reading? Well, you can like us even more & send us expressions of interest for The British Academy competitions detailed in the🧵below⬇️♥️📚
Thanks to Sophie Heywood the link is available for another year. If you missed this, go check it here: youtu.be/h9GGYq3KMF8?si… and learn everything about my multisensory translation project!
🎺deadline approaching (15 September)🎺: submit abstracts for special issue on Translating and Publishing Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere Middle Eastern Literatures
I wrote abt the fascinating Paul Winkler for Cécile Cottenet +online dictionary of 'passeurs' who mediated between France and US-American literature (cool project!). Find out how Winkler brought US comics to France - and was hated for bringing Mickey Mouse to the masses.
New publication! Our own Dr Marrisa’s article on the Publishers Association in Victorian Britain 🇬🇧
It's #WorldKidLitMonth! Today my pick is Martin Blasco, The Darkness of Colours tr by Claire Storey from HopeRoad. Thrilling historical fiction set in Buenos Aires in the 1880s and 1910s - I loved it! hoperoadpublishing.com/the-darkness-o… World Kid Lit: global literature for young people Outside In World
We were VERY excited to welcome Ben Whishaw, Lucian Msamati and the cast of #WaitingforGodot to University of Reading Special Collections to see the Samuel Beckett Collection during rehearsals this summer. Learn more about the world's largest Beckett Collection at rdg.ac/4cYaI2A Waiting For Godot
1 week to go until #EuropeanDayofLanguages on 26 September! Looking for inspiration? Make the most of our free resources for #CreativeTranslation in the classroom! Translation activities: stephen-spender.org/translation-ac… Class projects: stephen-spender.org/class-projects/ #edutwitter #mfltwitterati
Hugely pleased to be involved in the important job of casting more light on working-class female writers. Thanks to SWWDTP Dr Nicola Wilson Simon Rennie Mid Pennine Arts