SUSAN EMANUEL, née Boyd-Bowman
Education
B.A: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 1971
M.A: University of London Institute of Education, England 1984 - Media in Education; Thesis: "The Archaeology of the Image: The French Media Archives at INA"
PhD : Université de Rennes II, France 1992 - Sciences de l’Information et des Communications; Doctoral Thesis on "La SEPT: Télévision and Culture in France 1981-1991) (ARTE's precursor) supervised by Prof. Armand Mattelart.
Awards
Winner of the 2022 Translation Prize in Non-Fiction, from the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation, for two works published in 2021: The Belle Époque, by Dominique Kalifa, and Rescue, Relief, and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934-1945, by Catherine Collomp
Career Synopsis
Before becoming a freelance translator, I worked in Montreal as a teacher of English as a foreign language, then for CBC Radio, and then as an educational television producer (for the BBC) for 12 years, then as a media studies lecturer and scholar for ten years (in Britain, France and the USA), and finally as a film programmer. I continue to study American and European cultural history and work on interfaith issues. In my academic career, I published a number of articles on media studies, e.g. "Ien Ang, Watching Dallas", Reading into Cultural Studies, ed. Barker and Beezer, NY and London: Routledge, 1992 and I co-edited Popular Culture, Open University Press, 1982; Several articles were later derived from my thesis on cultural television in Europe (ARTE), e.g. "Quality, Culture and Television" in Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain, M. Scriven & Monica Lecomte (eds.) Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 1999, pp. 83-93
Recent Translations:
Andrew Curran and Henry Louis Gates, eds,
How to be Black: The Bordeaux Academy Papers,
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022
Dominique Kalifa,
The Belle Époque:
A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond
, Columbia University Press, 2021 (winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Non-Fiction, 2022)
Catherine Collomp,
Relief, Rescue and Anti-Nazism: The Jewish Labor Committee 1933-1945
, Wayne State University Press, 2021 (winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Non-Fiction, 2022)
Aline Kiner,
Night of the Beguines
, historical novel to be published by Pushkin Press in 2023 as The Mirror of Simple Souls
Book Presentations for Publishers:
Juliette Rennes,
Femmes en métiers d’homme: Cartes Postales 1890-1930 (CNL 2013) as
Gender, Work and Feminism in France: A Visual History 1890-1920
Guillaume Perissol,
Le Droit Chemin: jeunes délinquants en France et aux EU as
The Straight and Narrow: Juvenile Delinquency in France and the US in the Fifties
Eric Baratay,
Les bêtes dans les tranchées as Animals in the Trenches
Translations Recently Published:
Bruno Belhoste,
Paris Savant: Parcours et rencontres au temps des Lumières (Armand Colin, 2011),
as Paris Savant: Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment
for Oxford University Press (Short-listed for translation prize in non-fiction)
Dominique Kalifa,
Bas-Fonds: Histoire d'un Imaginaire (Seuil, 2013) as Vice, Crime, and Poverty,
for Columbia University Press
Pierre Bourdieu,
Le Déracinement: La crise de l'agriculture traditionelle en Algérie (1962),
as Uprooting for Polity Press
Translation Bibliography by Subject:
Economics
Daniel
Cohen, The
Prosperity of Vice; A Worried View of Economics, (MIT Press, 2011)
Daniel
Cohen, Homo Economicus, (Polity Press, 2014)
Philippe
Askenazy, Four Blind Decades:
French Economic Policy,, for University of California Press, 2014.
Virginie Silhouette-Dercourt,
“Ostalgic Consumption: Between Resistance and Nostalgia”,
Pierre Defraigne (interview):
International Trade, Corporate Lobbying and the European Political Project,,
CEO April 2015
Philippe Le Corre and Alain Sepulchre:
China's Offensive in Europe,
Brookings Institution, 2016
Edouard Challe,
Macroeconomic Fluctuations, (MIT Press, 2019)
Pierre Defraigne (interview),
International Trade, Corporate Lobbying and the European Political Project, (CEO April 2015)
Art
History
Frédérique Ait-Touati,
Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century,
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Alessandra
Russo, The
Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of Art in New Spain, for the
University of Texas, 2014
Lorenzo Cirrincione,
Inventories and Documentary Sociability,
Kadist Collection, Istanbul, 2015
Giuseppe Longo,
The Consequences of Philosophy, for the
Glass Bead, 2016
Tristan Garcia,
The Photographic Real, for the
Glass Bead, 2016
Vincent Normand,
Psychoacoustic Tarab: The Work of Tarek Atoui, for the
Tate Modern Catalogue, 2016
Vincent Normand & Tristan Garcia, eds,
Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibition,
Sternberg Press, 2018
- E. Duelgerova, The Exhibition as a Parergon of Artworks: Russian Avant-Garde Experiments
- S. Lojkine, Exhibition/Exposition: Denis Diderot's Salons
Sociology and Anthropology
Pierre
Bourdieu, The
Rules of Art, Polity Press & Stanford University, 1996.
Bourdieu
et. al., The Weight of the
World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society, Polity Press, 1999
(co-translator).
Alain
Touraine, Society as Utopia. In
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the
Western World. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Jean-Christophe Attias
& Esther Benbassa, Israel, the Impossible Land. (Stanford University Press, 2002)
[Various authors] for collection,
Non-Governmental Politics, edited by Michel Feher, New York: Zone Books 2007
Gisele Sapiro, & Heilbron, “Outline for a
Sociology of Translation: Current Issues and Future Prospects”, for
European Institute of Social Sciences:, In: Wolf,
Michaela and Alexandra Fukari (eds.), Constructing a
Sociology of Translation. 2007. vi, 226 pp. (pp.
93–107).
Jacques Defrance,
The Making of a Field with Weak Autonomy: The Case of the Sports Field in France 1895-1955
for Bourdieu anthology (Yale University Press 2008)
Alain Testart, What is a gift?
Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3, 2013. Co-translator.
Nicolas
de Bremond d’Ars & Yann Raison de Cleuziou, The French
Catholics and their Church Today, Council for
Research on Values and Philosophy, 2015.
Catherine
Bertho, IKKM “Collecting on the Web: Circumnavigating Small Territories:
Bourdieu’s Field Moving about the Web”
Nicolas
Lainez, “Deflowering, Selling and exploiting
Children: An Ethnographic Case Study of Vietnamese in Phnom Penh” International
Organization for Migration (Cambodia)
Nicolas
Lainez, ed. The “Yellow Trade” – Trading and Enslaving
Women and Children in Colonial Vietnam (1860-1940), NUS, Singapore.
Emmanuelle Saada,
Law in the Time of Catastrophe. The ‘Native Code’ in Colonial Algeria
Catherine Benoit,
Migration and AIDS in the French West Indies
Communications
Armand Mattelart, Mapping World Communication,
(University of Minnesota Press, 1993.Co-translator)
Emmanuelle Toulet, The Birth of Motion Pictures,
Abrams (US) and Thames & Hudson (UK), 1994
Armand Mattelart, The Invention of Communication,
(University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
Michel Maffesoli, The Contemplation of the World: Figures of Community Style,
(University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
History
of Science
François
Delaporte, The
Anatomy of Passions (PUF 2003) for Stanford University Press.
Jean-Arcady
Meyer & Agnes Guillot, How to
Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation (MIT Press, 2010)
Efthymios Nicolaidis, Science
and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization,
(John Hopkins University Press, 2011)
Frédérique Ait-Touati, Fictions
of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Marie-Pierre Rey,
Tsar Alexander's Objectives in the Franco-Russian War
for the Encyclopedia of Russian History, 2019
Giuseppe Longo,
Big Data and Biological Knowledge; The Biological Consequences of the Computational World:
Mathematical Reflections on Cancer Biology
International
Relations
Frédéric Bozo, De Gaulle, Two
Strategies for Europe: The US and the Atlantic Alliance.
Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
Margarita
Vassileva and Thierry Delpeuch, Toward a
Political Sociology of the Transfer of Legal Reforms by International Agencies,
for the Marc Bloch Center
Riva Kastoryano, An
Identity for Europe: The Relevance of Multi-Culturalism in the European Union. Construction
London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009.
Frédéric Bozo, Mitterrand:
the End of the Cold War and German Unification (Odile
Jacob, 2005) for Berghahn, 2009.
Rey,
Marie-Pierre, Slavonic Institute,
Paris I, various articles on Russian
and Soviet foreign policy, e.g. “Alexander I : “Moscow’s Views of De Gaulle and
French Diplomacy”, “The Ostpolitik of Chancellor
Brandt, France and the USSR 1969-1974”, the Helsinki process and the mejdunarodniki Soviet élite, European construction,
“What Kind of Socialism after the Cold War?”
“Chernayev”, etc.
Frederic Bozo,
A History of the
Iraq Crisis: France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991-2003,
Woodrow Wilson/Columbia University Press, 2016
Philosophy
and Religion
Michel
Henry, I Am the Truth: Toward a
Philosophy of Christianity (Stanford 2003)
Vajda,
Georges, “Jews & Muslims in the Hadiths” (25,000 word essay from 1937);
essays by Bat Ye’Or, “Modern Egyptian Anti-Judaism” & “The Ambiguities of Multiculturalism” for
book edited by Andrew Bostom, From Sacred
Texts to Solemn History: The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism, (Prometheus
2007)
G.-H.
Bousquet, “Precis of Muslim Law” and “Sexual Ethics of Islam” for Andrew
Boston, editor, The Legacy of Islamic
Anti-Semitism Prometheus Press,
2008.
Aviad
Kleinberg, The Seven
Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List, (Seuil, 2007) for Harvard University
Press, 2008.
Mondher
Sfar [translated as Emilia Lanier], In
Search of the Original Koran, (Prometheus Books, 2008).
Guy
Stroumsa, The
End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity (Odile Jacob
2005) for Chicago University Press, 2009.
Ibn
Warraq, ed. Which
Koran? Variant, Manuscripts, Linguistics (Prometheus 2011) articles
from French
Bernard
Plongeron & Jean-Claude Bonnet, eds. Redefining
the Sacred: Religion in the French and Russian Revolutions, ed. Daniel
Schönpflug & Martin Schulze Wessel (Peter Lang, 2012)
Diderot and Religion, in
Many Europes: Choice and Chance in Western Civilization
ed. Dutton, Marchand, Harkness, McGraw-Hill, 2014
Nicolas Bremond d’Ars and Yann Raison du Clezio
, French Catholics and their Church
for the Center for Research on Values and Philosophy, 2015
Marie-Sybille de Vienne
, Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century
(IRASEC, 2015)
Biography
Laurence
Bich, Le Baron Bich: Un homme de pointe,
(Paris: Perrin 2001) for the Bic Corporation;
Alexis de Tocqueville: On the Paths of
Freedom, by Louis Berruyer, Editions du Bout du Monde, 2005.
Maurice
Lever, Beaumarchais,
(Fayard, 3 vols.) condensation and translation for Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
Marie-Pierre
Rey, Alexander
I: The Tsar who Defeated Napoleon, (Flammarion Grande Biographie, 2009)
for Northern Illinois University Press, 2012
Websites and Miscellaneous:
Books and Ideas (La Vie des Idées):
Articles and reviews in the social sciences.
1914-1918 On-line:
Articles on French and Belgian experience of WWI.
“The
History of Montmoyen” – translation of Burgundian archival material
The Glass Bead,
journal of avant-garde art and theory
Clio,
history journal, two articles on the history of dance, 2018
Pro Bono Work:
50 entries on Religion for the
C18 Encyclopédie, ARTFL (University of Michigan)
Translators
without Borders: various NGO reports on health care in
developing world
Translation Colleges and Affiliations
2010: Collège Européen des
Traducteurs Littéraires, Seneffe, Belgium:
work on Henry Bauchau, Le Boulevard
Péripherique
2011 CITL, Arles, France. M-P Rey, Alexander.
2017 ATLAS. Translating History
Stirling, Scotland.
Member of American Translators
Association (ATA) and of New England Translators Association (NETA)
Ticknor Society (bibliophiles)
Other Activities:
I served for several years
on the Cary Lecture Series Committee, Lexington MA.