Ryan Gomez

Ryan is a second-year Ph.D. student of French Language and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his BA in Linguistics & French from the University of New Mexico in 2015. He spent 2017 and 2018 working as a lecteur d’anglais at the Université de Rennes 2 in France, and later returned to UNM to complete an MA in French in 2020. Ryan’s master’s thesis explored the sociopolitical implications of bande dessinée in translation, namely Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Hergé’s Tintin en Amérique. This research resulted in the “translator-function,” a paradigm that aims to theorize the figure of the translator and translation work within literary studies. Ryan’s current research interests include translation studies, literary translation, bande dessinée, contemporary graphic literature, and sociolinguistics. Ryan is a member of the Washington University Translator’s Collective and is pursuing a graduate certificate in Translation Studies. In his free time he enjoys singing, playing violin, and translating French and francophone literary works that have not yet been published in English.