Symposium
& Festival: "The World Republic of Literature"
Lannan Symposium,
April 11-12, 2006
Gonda Theatre, Georgetown University
Zaia Alexander
Zaia Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from UCLA. She has taught in the German and Comparative Literature departments at UCLA and worked in the Scholars and Seminars Program at the Getty Research Institute, where she co-curated Peter Forgacs's The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River. Her publications include "Primo Levi: On Translation" in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (2007), "The Translator's Diary" in Suitcase: A Journal for Transcultural Traffic. "The Danube Exodus: the Rippling Currents of the River" (co-authored with Marsha Kinder) in Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film (MIT) and co-authored with Antje Rávic Strubel "The Unfaithful Original in Neue Deutsche Literatur (NDL). A selection of her translations include the novel Unter Schnee (Snowed Under) by Antje Rávic Strubel, the Theresienstadt diary "We're Alive and Life Goes On by Eva Roubickova (Henry Holt), and "On Translating and Being Translated" by Primo Levi (LA Times Sunday Book Review). She is currently Program Coordinator at the Villa Aurora Foundation for European-American Relations.