Sandra Bermann
Sandra Bermann | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Literary scholar |
| Spouse | George Bermann |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Smith College University of Pavia Columbia University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Comparative literature |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Sandra Bermann is an American literary scholar. She is the Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her research and writing focuses on poetry, translation, and literary theory.[1] She served as president of the American Comparative Literature Association from 2007 to 2009,[2] and chaired Princeton's Comparative Literature department from 1998 to 2010. In 2011, she succeeded Harvey S. Rosen as the Head of Whitman College.[3] Bermann was succeeded by Claire F. Gmachl on July 1, 2019.[4]
Biography
[edit]Bermann graduated from Smith College in 1969. She pursued further studies at the University of Pavia in 1970. From Columbia University she earned a master's degree in 1971 and a doctorate in 1976.
Bermann is married to George Bermann.[5]
Selected works
[edit]- Manzoni, Alessandro (1984). On the historical novel. Translated by Bermann, Sandra. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3084-2. OCLC 9575018.
- Bermann, Sandra (1988). The Sonnet Over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-7063-1.[6]
- Bermann, Sandra; Wood, Michael, eds. (2005). Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-2668-1. OCLC 592756171.[7]
- Bermann, Sandra; Porter, Catherine, eds. (2014). A Companion to Translation Studies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-61615-4.
References
[edit]- ^ "Sandra Bermann | Comparative Literature". Princeton University. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ "Past ACLA Administration Officers". ACLA. Archived from the original on 2003-05-15. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Bermann named new master of Princeton's Whitman College". Princeton University. 2011-01-03. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ Stamps, Walker (March 26, 2019). "Claire Gmachl to become new Head of Whitman College". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ "Prof. George Bermann '75 LL.M. Awarded Honorary Degree from the University of Versailles". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ Reviews of The Sonnet Over Time:
- Lloyd, Rosemary (1989-06-01). "Reviews". Journal of European Studies. 19 (2): 149–150. doi:10.1177/004724418901900205. ISSN 0047-2441. S2CID 162335603.
- Baldridge, Wilson (1990). "Review of The Sonnet over Time". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 44 (1/2): 94–96. doi:10.2307/1347066. ISSN 0361-1299. JSTOR 1347066.
- ^ Reviews of Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation:
- Bernofsky, Susan (2005). "Review of Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation". MLN. 120 (5): 1235–1239. doi:10.1353/mln.2006.0001. ISSN 0026-7910. JSTOR 3840709. S2CID 144196450.
- Naudé, Jacobus A. (2011-09-01). "Nation, language, and the ethics of translation. Edited by Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood". Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 29 (3): 381–385. doi:10.2989/16073614.2011.647507. ISSN 1607-3614. S2CID 143092984.
External links
[edit]- Sandra Bermann's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
