For anyone who is still curious about my experience on the Smith panel last Monday, I have one interesting tidbit to share. This is the bio I sent in for the event: Jaime Marie Estrada is a second-generation latin@ (proud that she is mixed race and that her fathers family immigrated from Nicaragua) who works in academic publishing and spends her days advocating for the translation of English-language texts into languages from around the world, working to provide accessible texts for students with disabilities, nominating books for national awards, and helping professors excerpt Penn Press books for classroom use. In her spare time, she is pursuing a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Philosophy and Literature. As an undergraduate at Smith, she pursued her love of language and literature with a major in English and a minor in East Asian Languages and Literature. This is the bio that was printed in the event booklet that I never saw before I got to the event: Jaime Estrada studied English and East Asian languages and literature at Smith, graduating in 2012. She received a master’s degree in political philosophy and literature from the University of Pennsylvania last spring. She is assistant to the director and rights administrator at the University of Pennsylvania Press, where she advocates for the translation of English language texts into other languages and works to provide accessible texts for students with disabilities. At Smith, she was a fellow in the Mellon Mays program, which seeks to increase the presence of underrepresented minority scholars on university faculties. I will refrain from saying anything else and let you all make judgments as you wish.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:13:49 +0000
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