Making Literature Travel

Jill Alessandra McCoy is the English Editorial Assistant for Transcript. She has been working with Literature Across Frontiers since the fall of 2012, and comes to LAF via the European Society of Authors, a Paris- and Berlin-based project network based around the promotion of translation. Jill is a translator working from French and Spanish into English, and she also regularly edits books and articles in the social sciences. Particular research interests include the sociology of translation and patterns of book circulation in globalized contexts. She is a graduate of the EHESS in Paris (2011) and Cornell University (2009). Jill is also an avid singer and can be seen performing with a trio in and around Paris.