Dr James Womack

Position:

• Teaching Officer, Academic Development and Training for International Students (ADTIS)
• Bye-Fellow, Fitzwilliam College

Contact Information

Telephone: +44 (0)1223(7)67121
Email: jww41@cam.ac.uk

Profile

James Womack has taught at various universities in the UK and Europe, including Moscow State University and the Complutense University in Madrid. He studied for a BA in English and Russian, and then completed a Master's degree and a PhD on literary translation, concentrating on ideological aspects of translation: how the translator 'gets in the way' of the text he or she is translating.

As well as his ADTIS responsibilities, he currently teaches undergraduate translation for the Spanish and Russian Sections at Cambridge, as well as Spanish literature to undergraduates at Fitzwilliam. He gives occasional seminars on translation techniques at colleges in the university.

James is also a poet and a professional literary translator from Russian and Spanish. He teaches Creative Writing at Oxford University, and is extremely interested in creative writing pedagogy and how it might feed into a wider academic understanding of what 'creativity' might mean. Current translation projects include poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Manuel Vilas, as well as a selection of work by imprisoned Turkmen dissident writers.