Patrick Hersant
From 7 June to 22 June 2021

Patrick Hersant is a lecturer at Université Paris 8, where he teaches English literature and practical translation. He is head of the “Multilinguisme, traduction, creation” (“Multilingualism, translation, creation”) team at the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts (ITEM), where he also teaches a course on the genetics of translation. His research focuses on collaborative translation, the translator’s discourse and the revision of literary translations. He has translated a number of English-language writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Seamus Heaney.