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Faye Duxovni

Faye (she/her) graduated MIT in 2018 with a degree in computer science, spent several years working as a software engineer, and finally escaped from the tech industry in 2023 to become a freelance Japanese-English translator. She works primarily on manga, light novels, and anime, and has a particular interest in messy queer stories. Her translation credits include the novel The Despicable Duke Settles His Affairs for the launch of J-Novel Club's BL imprint, and the Netflix anime film Cosmic Princess Kaguya! In her spare time, she enjoys tabletop role-playing games and writing original short fiction.

Sessions

"Gender" is a verb - working with pronouns in entertainment translation

Japanese has a wide variety of first-person pronouns that convey a rich depth of information about a speaker's gender presentation, social positioning and character archetype, among other things. This can create challenges when translating dialogue in entertainment media into English, particularly in scenarios where gender is in question or in flux—how do we ensure that the characterisation...

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