Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky | |
---|---|
Born | July 20, 1966 Cleveland |
Susan Bernofsky (born 1966) is an American translator of
She teaches at Columbia University. In April 2024, she was one of 23 Jewish professors at Columbia (including six Barnard College professors) to sign an open letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik, calling congressional investigations of antisemitism on university campuses "a new McCarthyism" intended to "to rehearse and amplify decades-long bad-faith efforts to undermine universities as sites of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production" and alleging a widespread effort to silence "Palestinian narratives and analyses on campus." The letter she signed declared that "today’s attacks on the university [because of alleged climate hostile to Jewish and Israeli students] are not truly about antisemitism."[4]
Books
- Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser (Yale University Press, 2021)
- In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means (co-editor with Esther Allen, Columbia University Press, 2013)
Translations
Robert Walser
- Looking at Pictures
- The Walk
- Berlin Stories
- The Assistant
- Microscripts
- The Tanners
- The Robber
- Masquerade and Other Stories
Jenny Erpenbeck
- The Old Child and Other Stories
- The Book of Words
- Visitation
- The End of Days
- Go, Went, Gone
Yoko Tawada
- Memoirs of a Polar Bear
- The Naked Eye
- Where Europe Begins
- Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, ISBN 9780811234870
Selected others
- The Metamorphosis (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014) by Franz Kafka
- Perpetual Motion by Paul Scheerbart
- Opera Theatre of St. Louis[5]
- The Black Spider (New York Review Books, 2013) by Jeremias Gotthelf
- False Friends by Uljana Wolf
- Siddhartha (Modern Library, 2006) by Hermann Hesse
- Celan Studies by Peter Szondi
- The Trip to Bordeaux by Ludwig Harig
- Anecdotage: A Summation (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996) by Gregor von Rezzori
References
- ^ Bio
- ^ "Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- ^ "The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator"
- ^ "Letter from Jewish faculty on academic freedom, attacks on the University, and the weaponization of antisemitism". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
- ^ Isaac Mizrahi in conversation with Susan Bernofsky and Anne Bogart