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James Richie
Lecturer
Global Cultures & Languages
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
James Richie
Lecturer
Global Cultures & Languages
Specialty area(s)
Translation, Localization, Contemporary Latin American Literature, Film and Media Studies
Current courses at UWL
Spanish 202
Spanish 307 (Latin American Texts)
Spanish 332 (Spanish Speakers in the US)
Spanish 354 (Artistic Expression in the Spanish-Speaking World)
Education
BA: UW-Eau Claire (Spanish, Linguistics Minor)
MA: UW-Milwaukee (Italian-to-English Translation)
PhD: University of Louisville (Humanities, Certificate in Latin American and Latino Studies)
Career
Professional history
Concordia Language Villages: Counsellor, Teacher, Credit Facilitator
Carthage College: Intellectual Foundations Adjunct
University of Louisville: Humanities Adjunct
McDonell Central Catholic High School: Spanish Teacher
Research and publishing
Translated Books:
A Village Devastated by Godzilla by Víctor Cabrera, in Triple Series, no. 26, Ravenna Press, 2025.
Selected Articles:
"Translating a Collage of Voices in Multimodal Poetry" in Multimodality and Society (Online) 2026.
"Translation and Migration, Utopia and Dystopia: Representations of the Labor of Cultural Mediation in Fictional Eastern Europe and the Real US-Mexico Border" in Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, and Society, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025.
"Imagined Community as a Solution to a Paradoxical Translation" in Translation Review, vol. 115, no. 1, 2023.
Book Reviews:
Translators on Translation: Portraits of the Art by Kelly Washbourne (2025), in Translation Review, Taylor and Francis, 2026.
Chilean Cinema in the 21st Century World (2020) edited by Vania Barraza and Carl Fischer, in Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, and Culture, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2023.
Kudos
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