Katie Brown
Katie Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Director of Education and Student Experience at the University of Exeter. A specialist in contemporary Venezuelan culture, her main research interests are the circulation of people (travel, migration and exile) and texts (publishing, cultural policy and translation). She also researches and teaches about intermedialty and cultural responses to politics in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Katie is also a professional translator and a founding member of the transatlantic translation collective Colaboratorio Ávila. She puts this collaborative translation methodology to use by supervising the English translation strand of the ‘Confluence of Religious Cultures’ project. She regularly shares translations online, particularly through Latin American Literature Today. Her translation of Alejandra Banca’s Desde la salvajada is forthcoming with Selkie’s House (2024).