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Biographie de Jennifer Trahan

The Author : Elizabeth Welt Trahan, born in Berlin, Germany in 1924, lived in Czechoslovakia from 1929 to 1939 and in Vienna until her departure for the United States in 1947 – a time chronicled in her memoir Walking with Ghosts : A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna (Peter Lang, 1998). With degrees in literature from Sarah Lawrence, Cornell, and Yale, she taught at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Pittsburgh, the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) (where she founded their now famous School of Translation and Interpretation and received an honorary doctorate), and at Amherst College until 1993.
Her publications include textbooks, translations, studies in German, Russian and Comparative Literature, and translation and interpretation methodology. Currently, she is on the Steering Committee of the New England Chapter of the National Writers Union.