Congratulations to Stipendiary Lecturer in German Dr Isabel Parkinson who has won the Women+ in German Studies book prize with her proposal for In Two Minds: Consciousness, Gender, and Voice in German-to-English Translation.
She says:
I’m so pleased that my book proposal for a comparative translation analysis of novels by four renowned German-language women writers — was chosen as the winner of the annual Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) Book Prize.
Dr Parkinson continues:
“I always like to tell people that my research is about chatty women, and what I found so compelling about the corpus of text in my work is this common thread of writers trying to invite us into the mind of their protagonists — to hear her voice, in an historical moment and culture that isn’t always interested in listening.
This award is an immense personal victory, and I extend sincere thanks to the committee for believing that this work has something interesting to say, but it also feels like a victory for voices. It offers us a way of hearing minoritised and marginalised voices, and asks — in a time where defining and indeed distinguishing what a thinking subject is grows more difficult daily — what it means to be, to have, and to hear a human mind.
To all the women in German Studies — keep doing German, stay chatty, and stay connected. Thank you for your attention and support.”
