Edwin Gentzler divides his time between conducting teaching and research in Comparative Literature and directing the Translation Center. His research interests include translation theory, literary translation, and postcolonial theory. He is the author of Translation and Identity in the Americas (London: Routledge, 2007) and Contemporary Translation Theories (London: Routledge, 1993), reissued in a revised second edition (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2001; Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2004). He co-edited (with Maria Tymoczko) the anthology Translation and Power (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), which includes essays by many of the distinguished guests participating in the Translation Center's International Visitors series.
He serves as co-editor with Susan Bassnett of the "Topics in Translation" Series for Multilingual Matters, is on the Board of Advisers to the Encyclopedia of Literary Translation by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers in England, and is a member of the Advisory Board of several journals, including Cadernos de Tradução, Across, Metamorphoses, Journal of Chinese Translation Studies, and the Massachusetts Review. Nominated for a distinguished teaching award for his course "Translation and Postcolonial Studies," he lectures widely on issues of translation theory and culture, including most recently addresses in China, Mexico, England, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Argentina, Peru, and Brazil. He was the recipient with faculty in the Five College Canadian Studies Program and Concordia University, Montreal, of a $5,000 International Research Linkage Grant for Research on Citizenship and Identity. The Translation Center recently was awarded the Support Providers Export Achievement Award by the Pioneer Valley Trade Council. He was also the Project Investigator for a three-year $255,000 grant from the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to develop certification exams and provide training for court interpreters.