Miaïna Razakamanantsoa

Research Assistant in Subproject A02 "Literature and the Market"

CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Domplatz 6
Room 207
mrazakam@uni-muenster.de

  • Research areas

    • the publishing industry

    • literary translation(s)

    • indirect translation

    • paratexts

    • Book marketing

  • Vita

    • 2022: SISU Translation Research Summer School, Shanghai International Studies University, China (online)

    • since 2021: Research assistant at the CRC 1385

    • 2021: Exposé Scholarship (Leibniz University Hannover)

    • 2019: PROMOS Scholarship (DAAD)

    • 2017-2021: Master of Arts in Advanced Anglophones Studies, Leibniz University Hannover

    • 2016: ERASMUS semester, Universidad de Granada

    • 2015: ERASMUS Semester, University of Kent

    • 2014-2017: Bachelor of ARts in Multilingual Communication (French, English, Spanish), Université de Genève

  • Publications

    Papers

    1. "'Your eyes and ears on this side of the ocean': Complicating S. J. Greenburger's Role as Literary Scout and US Representative for Rowohlt Verlag in the 1960s." In: Authorship 11/1 (2022) (with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, forthcoming).

  • Talks

    1. "The (Re)production of Knowledge and its Failures in the Publishing of Translated Literature." "The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure": An International Conference (forthcoming).

    2. "Marketing literary translations in the U.S. book industry: Exoticism as a domestication strategy." AYA Spring Colloquium, 05/2022.

    3. "The Space of Translated Literature in the U.S. Book Industry." EAAS 20/20 Conference, 05/2021.