Carol Maier Editor & Author

Carol Maier is professor of Spanish at Kent State University, where she is affiliated with the Institute for Applied Linguistics. A recipient of translation fellowships from both the NEA and NEH, she has written extensively on translation theory; coedited, with Anuradha Dingwaney, Between Languages and Cultures: Translations and Cross-Cultural Texts; and published translations of work by numerous authors, most recently Nivaria Tejera's The Ravine and Rosa Chacel's Dream of Reason.

Françoise Massardier-Kenney is professor of French and director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University. She is the editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series and coeditor of the journal George Sand Studies. Her publications include the monograph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand, the newly edited edition of Translating Slavery, Volumes 1 and 2 (The Kent State University Press, 2009), and translations of Sand's Valvèdre and Antoine Berman's Toward a Translation Criticism: John Donne (The Kent State University Press, 2009).