Claire Foster

REVIEWS + ESSAYS

• “On Tone: Translating the Vibe of a Room” for Arcade (December 2023)

• “Between Texts: Notes on Literary Translation” for Literary Review of Canada (November 2023)

• Essay (“Notes on Translating Silence, Starvation, and the Color Green in Pierre Clémenti’s A Few Personal Messages) for AWP Panel, “Translating Trauma” (2022, virtual)

• Essay (“The Feminist Snap/shot: in Crisis & on Instagram”) for Wayne State University’s Visual Culture Symposium, The Visual Logic/s of Feminism/s. (April 2019, Detroit)

OTHER WRITING

• on not-reading (Womb House Books Review)

• on Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal, in Handeslling: A Booksellers Book (Biblioasis, Indie Bookstore Day 2024)

EVENTS

• Introduction to Nathalie Granger (Destroy, She Said: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras, TIFF, April 2024)

• CIRCUMFLUENCE: On Writing: How Are We Influenced?, The Centre for Comparative Literature, The University of Toronto (November 2023)

• Critical Conversations “Fall of the Newsstand?” panelist, Toronto International Festival of Authors (September 2023)

• Presentation on translating Pierre Clémenti’s A Few Personal Messages: “Green Paint and Genius Rage,” Alliance Française de Cincinnati (April 2023)

• Introduction to Neon of the Everyday: Two Films by Pierre Clémenti, TIFF Wavelengths (March 2023)

• Pack Animal Autumn Reading (November 2022)

• Pierre Clémenti: A Special Live Event + Book Launch for A Few Personal Messages at the MoMA, with Lynne Tillman, Stephanie LaCava, Shiv Kotecha, Balthazar Clémenti, Ken Jacobs, and Leah Hennessey (October 2022)

• Trampoline Hall Lecture: “Rhymes with Glamour: A Lecture on Stammering in 7 Syllables” (2021)

QUESTIONS ASKED

• Interview with Fine Gråbøl on What Kingdom (Type Books, May 2024, in-person)

• Interview with Balsam Karam on The Singularity (Type Books, May 2024, in-person)

• Interview with Jacqueline Feldman on On Your Feet (Type Books, April 2024, virtual)

• Interview with Jamie Chang on Counsel Culture (Type Books, April 2024, in-person)

• Interview with Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries (Type Books, March 2024, in-person)

• Interview with Tamara Faith Berger on Yara (Arcade, February 2024)

• Interview with Lauren Elkin on Art Monsters (Type Books, December 2023, virtual)

• Interview with Ann Goldstein on The Forbidden Notebook, with Eloisa Morra (Type Books, March 2023, virtual)

• Interview with Brian Robert Moore on A Silence Shared, with Eloisa Morra (Type Books, February 2023, virtual)

• Interview with Andrea Chapela and Kelsi Vanada on The Visible Unseen (Type Books, November 2022, virtual)

• Interview with Saskia Vogel, Rhonda Mullins, and Pablo Strauss on literary translation (Coach House Books Podcast, May 2022)

• Interview with Daniel Hahn on Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Type Books, May 2022, virtual)

• Interview with Victoria Chang on Dear Memory (Dear Seekers Podcast, March 2022)

• Interview with Amina Cain on Indelicacy (Type Books Newsletter, 2020)

• Interview with Katie Shireen Assef on Black Forest (Columbia Journal, 2020)

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

• Interview by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, “French Actor Clémenti’s Prison Memoir ‘Not a Warning, but a Wailing’” (December 2022)