Lynn E. Palermo

Professor Lynn E. Palermo is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Susquehanna University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Her recent work has focused on literary translation and its pedagogy. She received a 2018 NEA Translation Fellowship for her translation of Humus, by Fabienne Kanor, to appear in the UVA Press CARAF Series. In 2016, she received a French Voices Award for her co-translation of Cyrille Fleischman’s Destiny’s Repairman. Her translations have appeared in journals including the Kenyon Review Online, Exchanges Literary Journal, and World Literature Today. She has also published research on the cultural politics of interwar France. She is a volunteer translator for the UN and affiliated organizations.