no man's land Translators

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 and Translation" in The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (2007), "The Translator's Diary" in Suitcase: A Journal for Transcultural Traffic, and "The Danube Exodus: the Rippling Currents of the River" (co-authored with Marsha Kinder) in Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film (MIT). Her most recent translations include the novel Snowed Under by Antje Rávic Strubel (Red Hen Press, 2007). Her short story translations have been anthologized widely. She is currently Director of Programs at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. no man's land # 2