Since 2015 Kate Roy (PhD Manchester) has been an Adjunct Professor in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Franklin University Switzerland, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and culture, and in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and Germanic Studies more generally.
Her research interests include translation, rewriting, and the strategic manipulation of difference, and she has published translations of short stories by Swiss/German writer Sibylle Berg, as well as by German writers Hans Christoph Buch, Sudabeh Mohafez, and Zehra Çirak. Her other translations include Mohafez’s “Desert Sky, Land of Stars,” for which she won joint first prize in the 2011 John Dryden Translation Competition, and extracts from Buch’s Zanzibar Blues, or How I Found Livingstone, for which she won first prize in the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. (2022)
Winter 2022 (Issue 17), Late Guests
Winter 2019 (Issue 14), Exit stage left
Winter 2011 (Issue 06), Books
Winter 2009 (Issue 04), Sediment