Faculty Fellows

Preetha Mani
Title: Associate Professor of South Asian Literatures
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literatures at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on how representations of the Indian woman are used to shape ideas of regional and national identity, and experiences of belonging, in the aftermath of Indian Independence. She is currently completing a book manuscript, which chronicles the emergence of the short story as a preeminent genre in twentieth century Hindi and Tamil literature. The book proposes a view of Indian literature as a field of comparative literature that is comprised of mutually imbricated local, regional, national, and global processes of literary canonization and shows the short story to be a major genre of postcolonial literature and central to the formation of the new woman. She has an enduring interest in the relationship between gender and genre and the popular and the literary, which informs her ongoing work on the comparative study of Indian and world literatures, translation studies, and women’s writing in South Asia.

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Jeffrey Lawrence
Title: Associate Professor of English
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

https://english.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-profiles/profile/6489-lawrence-jeffrey.html

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Jeffrey Ulrich
Title: Associate Professor of Classics
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

Department of Classics

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Jill North
Title: Professor of Philosophy
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

Department of Philosophy

Jill North, Professor, Department of Philosophy

Jill North works in the philosophy of physics and philosophy of science, with interests in metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics. She has been especially interested in exploring the mathematical formulations of physical theories, and the ways in which different formulations of a theory may differ in what they say about the nature of physical reality; in other words, the sense in which different formulations, even those said to be theoretically equivalent, are, or are not, inter-translatable.

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Miguel Jiménez-Crespo
Title: Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Director, MA and undergraduate certificate programs in Spanish <> English Translation and Interpreting.

Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo's research explores the intersections of translation studies theory, technological developments, and the digital world, with a particular emphasis on human-centered approaches. His current projects include editing the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Translation, Technology and AI (36 chapters), as well as investigating AI language technologies in language access and language justice, funded by a Rutgers Global Grant. He also recently edited a special issue in the journal InContext: Studies in Translation and Interculturalism entitled “Human-Centeredness in Translation: Advancing translation studies in a human-centered AI era”. His monographs have been translated into Greek, Korean and Chinese, with a forthcoming Arabic translation of Localization in Translation (Routledge, 2024)

He is currently the Chief Editor of the Open Section of the journal Tradumàtica: Translation Technologies, a member of the AI working group and the Education Leadership Committee of the American Translators Association (ATA), and the elected Secretary of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).

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Ryan Kernan
Title: Associate Professor of English
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

Department of English

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Jae Won Chung
Title: Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Seminar: 2026-2027: Translation

Jae Won Edward Chung is an assistant professor of Korean literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

Chung's current monograph project explores the shifting meaning of the political in postmillennial South Korean literature under neoliberalism. His early reflections on the subject have appeared in his essays on authors Pyun Hye-young (Boston Review) and Yun I-hyeong (The Journal of Korean Studies). The book will also explore the interrelationship between literary authorship, translation culture, and social reproduction.

Chung is the Vice President of the Korean Literature Association, a series editor of DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation, an executive committee member of the LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English Forum of the MLA, and the program director of RESA (Rutgers Ewha Study Abroad).

He is also the editor of the forthcoming special issue of Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia, titled "Remainders Reimagined," which includes translations and critical commentary of poetry, fiction, essay and drama by works of notable writers such as Kim Saryang, An Su-gil, Kim Myung-Wha, and Yū Miri.

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