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Soldering with Air: Toward a Multi-Disciplinary Understanding of Translation

Languages, broadly construed, mediate our interactions with the world and with each other. Languages neither correspond exactly to reality nor to each other, and the passage between them is often seen as a fundamental obstacle to translation. Gaps- slippage- misalignment- inequivalence: all carry a negative connotation and reflect prevailing attitudes about the `loss' associated with translation. We would like to propose a more positive view, and explore the creative opportunity that the spaces between languages and phenomena present to translators. However, the creative potential of these spaces also allows for distortion and misdirection, even unintentional. As educators, we hope to nurture thoughtful and mindful translators who are conscious of the interpretive choices they make while translating.

We will discuss the translation of a 詞 (cí) poem written by the 11th century Chinese poet 朱淑真 (Zhū Shúzhēn). The 詞 genre consists of poems set to music, and we're interested in the interdisciplinary creative potential of a multimedia translation: though the traditional score is available, can the melody itself be part of, or subject to, translation? what about expanding a musical work by dance, itself a language? There is no original dance at all — the ultimate gap!

Ophelia Adams

Ophelia Adams is a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester, and currently working toward an MA in literary translation, focusing on the work of 朱淑真 (Zhū Shúzhēn), a Song dynasty poet and one of the few woman whose work survives from that era.

Stella Wang

Stella Wang is an associate professor in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program at the University of Rochester. She is a medievalist and translator by training, and also teaches writing and translation courses.

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