Ramón J. Stern

Ramón J. Stern is a translator between Spanish, Portuguese, and English (he is also proficient in Hebrew and Arabic) with a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Stern has served as a medical interpreter, translation project specialist and proofreader, admissions reader, and as a higher education administrator. His translation Syrian and Lebanese Patrícios in São Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil (University of Illinois Press, 2018) won the Arab-American Non-Fiction Book Award in 2019. He has also translated COVID manuals, research interviews, book chapters, human rights reports, and a forthcoming bilingual edition of poetry.