Rachel Cordasco

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Rachel Cordasco is a Wisconsin-based independent scholar, artist, and translator of Italian speculative fiction. Her book Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium is out from the University of Illinois Press. Find her at SFinTranslation.com.

Introduction: International Horror Fiction in Translation

July 2024
Rachel Cordasco
Illustration by Abigail Larson, Something Wrong?, ink, watercolor, digital media, 2023Discussions of horror fiction often begin with attempts at a definition. Questions like “what is ‘horror’…
Thinking Outside the Perceptual Box: Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg’s Robot

November 10, 2021 Rachel Cordasco
Photo by Aideal Hwa / Unsplash If reading Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg’s Robot (Penguin Classics, 2021), translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz, makes you think about Stanislaw Lem’s work, you’re not alone…
Recent Polish Speculative Fiction in Translation

Winter 2021
Rachel Cordasco
Illustration by Chloe Cushman / All Saints’ Mountain by Olga Tokarsczuk POLISH SPECULATIVE FICTION in English is easy to find, if you know where to look: Twisted Spoon Press…
Horror in Translation

Winter 2019
Rachel Cordasco
HORROR COMES IN many forms and from all over the world. Whether it’s psychological horror that invites us to confront our deepest fears or biohorror that anticipates humanity’s genet…