Daisy Rockwell | Workshop| ‘Translation in Teaching and Researching South Asia and Beyond’

Please join the South Asia Center for a workshop with Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Prize-winning translator and artist.

What role does translation play in teaching and researching different parts of the world?  Students and faculty join International Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell for a hands-on workshop that explores this question.  Though Rockwell will draw from her background in South Asian studies, students and faculty working on different regions will also benefit from her approach to the craft of translation.

Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She has translated numerous classic and contemporary literary works from Hindi and Urdu into English. Her translations have been awarded the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, and the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award.

Her translations have been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and PEN Translates. Her novel Alice Sees Ghosts and Mixed Metaphors, her collection of poems about translation, are both forthcoming from Bloomsbury India in 2025 and 2026. Her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press in 2027.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the departments of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Art and Music Histories, and English and Creative Writing, in addition to the SU Art Museum, CODE^SHIFT, The Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation, and Syracuse University’s Humanities Center.