Introduction from Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons (2020)

• Emron Esplin,
• Margarida Vale de Gato

Affiliations

Emron Esplin

Emron Esplin is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses in US literature and interamerican literary studies. He is the editor, with Margarida Vale de Gato, of Translated Poe (Lehigh University Press, 2014) and Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons (Lehigh University Press, 2020), and edits the journal Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation (Johns Hopkins University Press). His first monograph, Borges’s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America, was published by the University of Georgia Press in the New Southern Studies series in 2016. He received the 2013 James W. Gargano Award from the Poe Studies Association for his article “Borges’s Philosophy of Poe’s Composition,” published in Comparative Literature Studies. He has also published articles on Katherine Anne Porter, Nellie Campobello, Pancho Villa, William Faulkner, Julio Cortázar, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is currently working on a book-length project on the English-language translations of Jorge Luis Borges’s short fiction. Margarida Vale de Gato translates, writes, teaches, and researches. She is Assistant Professor at the Universidade de Lisboa, where she teaches in the School of Arts and Humanities in the areas of translation and US literature and she is joint coordinator of the American Studies Group of ULICES. As a literary translator, she has produced Portuguese versions of French and English canonical texts (Sarraute, Michaux, Carroll, Yeats, Twain, Kerouac, Munro). Her most recent academic publications include a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe and an article in META on her translation of Lolita. She has published poems and short stories in national and international journals and anthologies, as well as the poetry collections Mulher ao Mar (Mariposa Azual, 2010), Mulher ao Mar Retorna (2013), Lançamento (Douda Correria, 2016) and Mulher ao Mar e Grinalda (2018). For the stage, she cowrote, with Rui Costa, the play Desligar e Voltar a Ligar, published in 2011 by Culturgest. Excerpted from Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato, eds., Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2020). Reprinted with permission from Lehigh University Press (https://lupress.cas.lehigh.edu/content/anthologizing-poe) and Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611462586/Anthologizing-Poe-Editions-Translations-and- (Trans)National-Canons). All rights reserved.

Margarida Vale de Gato

Universidade de Lisboa