Sherry Simon is Canadian translation scholar, who is best known for her work in

translation Translation is the communication of the semantics, meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The English la ...

and

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

Biography

Simon is a Professor in the Department of French Studies at

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

. She has also held the position of Canada Research Chair in Translation and Cultural History (

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

, 2005) and served as Director of Concordia’s interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities Program.

Research and impact

Simon's early work on translation and gender has had a great impact when it comes to feminist issues in

translation studies Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the vari ...

Selected publications

* Sherry Simon. ''Gender in Translation - cultural identity and the politics of transmission.'' London & New York: Routledge * Sherry Simon. "Yiddish and Multilingual Urban Space in Montreal", in Laurence Roth et Nadia Valman (dirs.), ''The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures'', London / New York, Routledge, 2014, p. 272-285. * Sherry Simon. "The City in Translation: «Urban Cultures of Central Europe» ", in Elke Brems, Reine Meylaerts and Luc van Doorslaer (dir.), ''Known Unknowns of Translation Studies'', Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2014, p. 155-171 * Sherry Simon. "Afficher la langue dans l’art public", in Marc-André Brouillette (dir.), ''Des textes dans l’espace public / Words in Public Space'', Montréal, Éditions du Passage, 2014, p. 68-77 and 143-146. * Sherry Simon. ''Villes en traduction: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelone et Montréal'', Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2013.Sherry Simon (dir.). ''Speaking Memory. How Translation Shapes City Life'', Montréal, McGill-Queen͛s University Press, 2016. * Sherry Simon. ''Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory'', New York, Routledge, 2011.Sherry Simon. Translation sites: A Field Guide. Routledge. 2019.

References

Living people Canadian feminists 21st-century Canadian translators 21st-century Canadian women writers Academic staff of Concordia University Canada Research Chairs Year of birth missing (living people) {{academic-stub