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The Renaissance in Translation: a ZOOM reading and discussion
February 25 @ 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026 | 7:00PM PST
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The Renaissance in Translation: a ZOOM reading and discussion with award-winning translator PATRICIA FELISA BARBEITO, translator of HARIS VLAVIANOS’s poetry collection Renaissance
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| PATRICIA FELISA BARBEITO is Professor of American Literatures at the Rhode Island School of Design and a translator of Greek fiction and poetry. Her translations include Menis Koumandareas’s Their Smell Makes Me Want to Cry; Elias Maglinis’s The Interrogation, shortlisted for the Greek National Translation Award and winner of the Modern Greek Studies Association’s Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize; M. Karagatsis’s The Great Chimera; Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife, shortlisted for the National Translation Award, and Christos Chomenidis’s Niki, shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for M. Karagatsis’s Junkermann.
HARIS VLAVIANOS is a Greek poet whose work consistently probes the intersections of history and poetry. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, a range of prose works, all of which have been translated into numerous languages. His Self-Portrait of White was awarded the National Poetry Prize, the Academy of Athens Poetry Prize, and the Critics’ Poetry Prize. He teaches Contemporary History and Modern Greek Poetry at the American College of Greece and Creative Writing at the Hellenic Open University.
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The presentation is co-hosted by the Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies at LMU and the Hellenic Studies Program at the California State University, Sacramento under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles. |
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