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Johnny Lorenz
Professor, English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Office:
- Dickson Hall 359
- Email:
- lorenzj@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-7318
- Degrees:
- BA, University of Miami
- MA, University of Texas at Austin
- PhD, University of Texas at Austin
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JOHNNY LORENZ, born in 1972, son of Brazilian immigrants to the U.S., is a translator, scholar, poet and professor of English at Montclair State University. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He translated Clarice Lispector's A Breath of Life and The Besieged City (New Directions). His research has appeared in Luso-Brazilian Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Latin American Literary Review and Journal of Lusophone Studies. Lorenz's book of original poetry, Education by Windows, was published by Poets & Traitors Press. He has received a Fulbright and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. His translation of The Front by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira received the 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award. His translation of Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow (Verso) received support from the National Endowment for the Arts; it was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.
Specialization
Poetry, Latin American Literature, Brazilian Literature, Translation (from the Brazilian Portuguese), Poetry Writing
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Office Hours
Fall
- Thursday
- 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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