Rosemary Arrojo

Prof. Dr. Rosemary Arrojo is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY) and Head of its Translation Research Program since 2007. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's Humanities Center, with prior teaching at Universidade de Campinas (Brazil, 1984–2002). Her work bridges Postcolonial Studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender studies, focusing on translation theory and Latin American literature.

• Education: Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), dual master's (Cultural Studies/Spanish/Translation Studies)

Research interests include the cultural turn in translation studies, ethics of translation, and gender in translation. Her influential Portuguese textbook Oficina de Tradução: A Teoria na Prática (1986) has 5 editions. Key articles address translation ethics, Borges' works, and subverted translator footnotes in Latin American fiction.

During her 2010 visiting professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz), she delivered lectures on translation and gender/globalization, and public talks on Borges and Latin American narratives. Her upcoming works explore translation representation in fictional texts by Borges, Kafka, and others.