Katie Lateef Jan (pronounced John) is an educator, translator, and writer living in the Bay Area. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Comparative Literature with a Doctoral Emphasis in Translation Studies. Previously founding faculty at San Francisco Girls' School, she now teaches at the Branson School. She is the co-translator of Pablo Neruda's Heights of Macchu Picchu (Economy Press, 2026), Silvina Ocampo's Forgotten Journey (City Lights Books, 2019), and the co-editor of Untranslatability Goes Global: The Translator’s Dilemma, part of Routledge’s Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies series (2018). Her research focuses on Latin American literature, children's literature and childhood studies, and translation studies. A literary translator, her translations from the Spanish have appeared in The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, and Granta, among others. She has taught classes to students of all ages in Comparative Literature, English, Linguistics, Translation Studies, Spanish, and Writing. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a Pakistani father and American mother and now lives in San Francisco with her husband Arturo and their infant son Mazhar.
Contact: katieljan@gmail.com
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