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=Luise Von Flotow=

Luise von Flotow (born 1951) is a Canadian translator and translation researcher who specialises in the translation of Quebec literature. She is both a professor and director at The School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa.

Education
Von Flotow was born in 1951 in Canada, with a German background, and now resides in Ottawa.She completed her B.A. in French and German Studies at the University of London in 1974 before obtaining a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education a year later. She received her M.A. in French Language and Literature Studies from the University of Windsor in 1985 and subsequently, her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1991.

After several years as a lecturer at the University of Freiburg and the University of Marburg in Germany between 1987 and 1991, she began teaching at the University of Ottawa in Canada in 1995.

Translation
Von Flotow's research focuses primarily on political and idealogical influences within translation Studies, especially in regard to gender Studies, a subject she addresses in her 1997 study Translation and Gender. She further explores gender's role in translation in her 2011 work Translating Women (Perspectives on Translation.) Her interests include audiovisual translation, with a focus on dubbing and subtitling. She is a member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada.

Von Flotow has translated various works from German and French to English, including Deathly Delights by Anne Dandurand and The Stalinist's Wife by France Théoret, for which she received the Governor General's Award for French to English translation in 1992 and again in 2013, respectively. Her translated works include Girls Closed In by France Théoret, among many others.

In the Works

 * Transformations, Transfers, Deformations: Canada in Spain, ed. with Clara Foz and Maria Sierra Cordoba, in preparation.
 * Four Americas Rewritten: Translit, ed. with Marc Charron, University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming 2011.
 * Translation Effects: The Making of Contemporary Canadian Culture and Translation, ed. with Kathy Mezei and Sherry Simon, University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming 2012.

Published

 * Translating Women, ed., University of Ottawa Press, 2011.

French to English

 * Such a Good Education, tr. of France Theoret’s Une belle éducation,Toronto, Cormorant Press, 2010.
 * “Criticism, Commentary and Translation,” (Poésie 1985, 88-106) by Antoine Berman, in Critical Concepts Vol. I, ed. Mona Baker, Routledge, London/New York, 2009.
 * Obsessed with Language. A Socio-cultural History of Quebec, translation of La langue et le nombril. Une histoire socio-culturelle du Quebec by Chantal Bouchard, Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2008.
 * “Plaza de Espana” by Diana Culi, in The Third Shore, eds. Luise von Flotow and Agata Schwartz, Northwestern UP, 2006.

German to English

 * They Divided the Sky (working title). Re-translation of Der Geteilte Himmel, by Christa Wolf, 1963, for University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming.
 * Everyone Talks About the Weather. We Don’t. ed. Karin Bauer. Political columns by German RAF member Ulrike Meinhof, annotation and introduction by Karin Bauer, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008.

Chapters in books

 * “Translating Women: From Recent Histories to ‘Queerying’ Translation to Metramorphic Approaches,” translated into Portuguese in Tradução e Relações de Poder  eds. Rosvitha Friesen Blume and Patricia Peterle, at the Presses of Universidad federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, accepted for publication.
 * “June 2007: Quebec Politicians Debate a Bill to Impose Strict Controls on Audiovisual Translation, And Fail to Pass It”, in Translation Effects: The Making of Contemporary Canadian Culture, ed. Luise von Flotow, Kathy Mezei, Sherry Simon, forthcoming UOttawa Press, 2012.
 * “Thirty Years of Canadian Writing in German: Trends in Institutionalization, Translation and reception: 1967-2000,” in Canadian Studies: The State of the Art/Erudes canadiennes: Questions de recherché, eds. Klaus Dieter Ertler, Stewart Gill, Susan Hodgett, Patrick James,  Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna: Peter Lang, 465-482.
 * “Ulrike Meinhof: Translated, De-fragmented, and Re-membered” in Translating Women, ed. Luise von Flotow, UOttawa Press, 2011, 135-150.
 * “Gender en vertaalpraktijk” translation into Dutch of “Gender and the Practice of Translation”, Ch. 1 of Gender and Translation. Translation in the ‘Era of Feminism,’ in Denken over vertalen: tekstboek vertaalwetenschap (‘Thinking about Translation: Translation Studies Textbook’, edited by Ton Naaijkens, Cees Koster, Henri Bloemen and Caroline Meijer, Nijmegen: Vantilt, second edition, Nijmegen: Vantilt 2010, p. 249-262.
 * “Woman-handling the Text: Gender in Translation and Translation Criticism,” in Escritura y Comunicación, eds. Alejandro Parini and Alicia Zorrilla, Buenos Aires: Editorial Teseo, 2009, 163-178.
 * “Frenching the Feature Film, Twice – Or le synchronien au débat,” in Jorge Díaz Cintas (ed.) New Trends in Audiovisual Translation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2009, p.86-102.
 * “Thirty Odd Years of Canadian Writing in German: Trends in Institutionalization, Translation, and Reception, 1967-2000”,  Traduire depuis les marges/Translating from the Margins, Éditions Nota bene, Quebec, 2008, 313-339.
 * “Translation and Gender Paradigms: From Identities to Pluralities”,The Companion to Translation Studies, eds. Piotr Kuhiwczak and Karin Littau, Multilingual Matters, London, UK, 2007, 92-107.