Elizabeth Lowe
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Associate Scholar and Associate Director, Distance Learning and Program Development |
Research Interests
Translation, Latin American literature and culture, distance learning, Center's new
Geographic Expertise
Brazil, Colombia
Curriculum Vitae 
Courses
LAS 4935/6938 Advanced Translation Workshop: Liberary Translation
LAS 4935/LAS 6938 Terminology and Computer Assisted Translation
LAS 4935/6938 Latin American Studies Seminar
FOT 4801/6805 Theory
and Practice of Translation
FOT 4810/6810 Advanced Translation Workshop: Literary Translation
FOT 4812C/6816C Terminology and Computer-Assisted Translation
FOT 4800/6940 Translation Studies Practicum
Background
Elizabeth Lowe is Associate Director of the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, responsible for program development and distance learning. She is the founder and director of the newly created U.F. Translation Studies Certificate Program, housed in the Center and serving students in many disciplines across campus. She is a professional translator and a specialist in Latin American literature and culture. She has translated major Latin American and Portuguese writers and is the author of The City in Brazilian Literature and numerous scholarly publications in the area of Latin American literature and culture. Lowe was the founding director of the Partnership in Global Learning, an international consortium of universities, schools and corporations that promotes collaborative online teaching and learning.
She was founding Director of the Florida/Brazil Institute, a state bi-national linkage institute. Currently, Lowe is Co-P.I, of a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant program titled "The Aymara e-Learning Project : Using the Internet to Preserve and Promote an Indigenous Language." She has taught, conducted research and consulted throughout the hemisphere and was a Fulbright Scholar and professor of Comparative Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. She is a member of the American Literary Translators Association, the American Translators Association, and PEN American Center and is the recipient of awards for excellence in international education. She is accredited by the American Translators Association for translation from Portuguese to English. Her latest book, Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature, with co-author Earl E. Fitz, is forthcoming by the University Press of Florida.