recent
- German workshop leader for literary translation summer school at Bristol University
- Tutor at Bard College Berlin’s Language and Thinking Program
education
University of East Anglia, 1987-1991, BA in German under Max Sebald (minor in Film)
University of Surrey, 2006-8, MA in TEFL/Linguistics by distance programme
stipends and residencies
2025: Hawthornden Fellow, Scotland
2024: Hoskings Cottage, Stratford-Upon-Avon
2023: Goethe Institute residency and stipend in Gut Siggen, Ostholstein
2021/22: Working stipends from the German Translator Funds (DÜF)
2017: Residency at Straelen Übersetzerhaus, Nordrhein Westfalen
2015: Residency at the Baltic Translators’ House in Visby, Sweden. Translation project: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Silke Scheuermann (Seagull Books, 2018)
2014: Arts OMI residency in upstate New York. Translation project I Have No Regrets by Brigitte Reimann (Seagull Books, 2019).
2010: International Meeting of Translators from German, LCB, Berlin.
professional memberships and contributions
- Society of Authors, Translators’ Association
- Writer of book reports for New Books in German
- Contributor to the 2023 Austrian issue of Riveter magazine with a portrait of Elfriede Jelinek
- Contributor to the YouTube channel, Translators Aloud