Alessandra Capperdoni teaches Literature and Critical Teory in the Department of
Humanities at Simon Fraser University. She holds a degree in Foreign Languages and
Literatures from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a PhD in English from Simon Fraser
University, BC. Her interest in translation has developed in conjunction with her work on
poetics, experimental writing, psychoanalysis, and feminist poststructuralist discourse, as well
as 20th century theories and philosophies of language (from Russian formalism to Benjamin,
Derrida, Meschonnic, and Kristeva). Her articles on translation have appeared in Translation
Effects: The Making of Modern Canadian Culture (eds. Kathy Mezei, Sherry Simon and Luise
von Flotow), Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
(eds. Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton and Ray Ellenwood), Translating
from the Margins/Traduire des marges (eds. Denise Merkle, Jane Koustas, Glen Nichols and
Sherry Simon), and in the journal TTR: Traduction, traductologie, redaction.