Sherry Simon is a professor in the French Department at Concordia University. She is the author of  Cities in Translation. Intersections of Language and Memory (Routledge 2011) and of the award-winning  Translating Montreal. Episodes in the Life of a Divided City (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006)  which appeared in French translation in 2008 as Traverser Montréal. Une histoire culturelle par la traduction.  Among her other publications are  Gender in Translation  (1996) and Le Trafic des langues  (1994). She is co-editor with Paul St-Pierre of Changing the Terms.Translating in the Postcolonial Era, (Ottawa University Press 2000) and with Pierre Anctil and Norm Ravvin of New Readings of Yiddish Montreal-Traduire le Montréal Yiddish (University of Ottawa Press 2007).  She received a Killam fellowship in 2009  and was awarded the André-Laurendeau prize for the humanities by ACFAS in 2010. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and  of the Académie des lettres du Québec.