2019
Gave a lunch talk, “Confessions of a Literary Translator: The Prose and the Cons,” to the Friends of American Writers, Chicago, IL (October 9th)
Launch of “Life Stories, Death Sentences” at the Brooklyn Rail office in NYC (June 14th)
With Derek Mong, gave a joint reading from The Freedom Factory and The Joyous Science at Second Flight Books in Lafayette, IN (February 22nd).
2017
Gave a reading from Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory, a translation craft talk, and a graduate student brown-bag career talk for The Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University, organized by Eileen Kunkler (September 2017).
Invited presentation “What We Translate When We Translate Literature,” student literary translation exercise, and panel discussion with David Shook of Phoneme Media and editors of World Literature Today. The University of Oklahoma’s Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Symposium, organized by Emily Johnson (April 2017).
2016
Invited presentation on translating Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s “The Poetics of Titles.” “Planting the Flag: The Nonfiction of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky,” held at Indiana University, Bloomington, convened by Alex Spektor and Jacob Emery (October 2016).
2013
Invited presentation on translating Maxim Amelin. “Translators’ Coven: Fresh Approaches to Literary Translation from Russian,” at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, convened by Oliver Ready and Robert Chandler and supported by CEELBAS, the Russkiy Mir Foundation, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation (June 2013).
2012
Presented two papers in Russian, on co-translating Maxim Amelin and on translating Ilf and Petrov. II International Congress of Translators, sponsored by the Library of Foreign Literature and the Institute of Translation, in Moscow, Russia (September 2012).
Invited reading from The Twelve Chairs. “Winners of the Northern California Book Awards 2012” event, San Francisco, CA (August 2012)
Invited panelist. San Francisco International Poetry Festival (July 2012)
2011
Invited reading from The Little Golden Calf. LitCrawl, San Francisco, CA (October 2011).
2010
Invited reading from and lecture on The Little Golden Calf. Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, organized by John Hope (April 2010).
Invited panelist on literary translation roundtable “Artistry and Accuracy.” University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, organized by Sibelan Forrester (April 2010).
2007
Invited lecture, “Il’ia Il’f and Evgeny Petrov and Their Anti-Soviet Soviet Classics.” The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities 20th Anniversary Celebration (October 2007).