Translation Theme Semester-STORY, SENTENCE, SINGLE WORD: Translation Paradigms in Javanese and Malay Islamic Literature

Ronit Ricci is Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's College of Asia-Pacific, and author of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (Chicago, 2011).  She is currently conducting research on the history and literary culture of the Sri Lankan Malays.

Presented by the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester, the Comparative Literature Department,the Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for south Asian studies
at the University of Michigan.