Ramón J. Stern
Ramón J. Stern (1982) has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor. He is a translator and a higher education administrator. He served for many years as Administrative Manager of the Brazil Initiative at Brown University and of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). His translation of Oswaldo Truzzi’s study Syrian and Lebanese Patrícios in São Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil (University of Illinois Press, 2018) won the Arab-American Non-Fiction Book Award in 2019 from the Arab-American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Translation is not a neutral activity. What we choose to translate directly impacts the visibility, reach and circulation of ideas. In this sense, translation is an extension of the choices of publishers and editors in the original language.