Annie Brisset

Annie Brisset, a member of the Royal Society of Canada, is a Professor of Translation Studies and Discourse Theory at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Career

Brisset received and a member of the international advisory board of TTR (Translation, Terminology and Writing), a scholarly biannual journal of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies, which publishes articles on Translation, Terminology, Writing and related disciplines.

From 1980-1983, she was the founding Director of the School of Translation, Collège St. Boniface of the University of Manitoba, and then she went on to become Director of the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Ottawa from 1989-1992. in 1991, she received the Ann Saddlemyer Award(Canadian Association for the History of Theatre), while in 1987, she received the Jean-Béraud Theatre Critic of the Year Award (Canadian and Quebec associations of theatre critics.

Publications

Brisset has published extensively, and edited several academic articles and reviews in the area of translation studies. Some of her publications are:

A Sociocritique of Translation. Theatre and Alterity in Quebec; Poésie, cognition, traduction; « Traduire le texte dans son projet. Le littéralisme est soluble dans la poésie moderne : Auden », in A. Brisset (éd.), TTR; « Clémence Royer, ou Darwin en colère », in J. Delisle (ed.), Portraits de traductrices, Presses de l'U d'Ottawa, 2002, 173-203 "Alterity in Translation : An Overview of Theories and Practices", in S. Petrilli (ed.); « Retraduire ou le corps changeant de la connaissance. Sur l'historicité de la traduction », Palimpsestes. Faut-il retraduire?; "Translation and Identity", in L. Venuti (ed.), The Translation Studies Reader, Londres/New York, Routledge, 2004 « Le traducteur sujet du sens : conflit de représentations », in M. Lederer (éd »), Le sens en traduction, Paris, Minard, 2006, 21-35 « La notion de culture dans les manuels de traduction. Domaines allemand, anglais, coréen et français ». Meta; Traduire la « création pure ». Altazor de Huidobro et la (dé)raison transformationniste, Palimpsestes. Hommage à Paul Bensimon, no hors série, "Translation, theatre and society: Quebec's American dream",