Barbara Godard
Biography
Barbara Godard, Avie Bennett Historica Chair of Canadian Literature and Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought and Women's Studies at York University, has published widely on Canadian and Quebec cultures and on feminist and literary theory. Her work in translation theory has been influential in the cultural turn in Translation Studies. As translator, she introduced Quebec women writers Louky Bersianik, Yolande Villemaire, and Antonine Maillet to an English readership. Her translations include Nicole Brossard's These Our Mothers (1983), Lovhers (1986), Picture Theory (1991, revised edition 2006), and Intimate Journal (2004) and France Théoret's The Tangible Word (1991). In 2004 a revised edition of her translation of Maillet's The Tale of Don l'Orignal was published and also broadcast on CBC's Between the Covers. In 1998 she held the Gerstein Award for an advanced research seminar on “Translation Studies in Canada: Institutions, Discourses, Texts.” Among her awards is the Vinay-Darbelnet Prize of the Canadian Association of Translation Studies (2000).