At the 49th annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (April 12- April 15, 2018) a roundtable "Self-translation is Not Translation at All" took place with the following contributions:
- “Self-translation: When Herman Melville becomes Marcel Proust and the White Whale becomes a Cookie” Yves Cloarec, Queens College, CUNY
- “Oscillations: Translation and Re-translation in It’s Out Now” Mona Eikel-Pohen, Syracuse University
- “Self-translation as a Compositional Method” Piotr Gwiazda, University of Pittsburgh
- “Why in French?” Sultana Raza, Freelance writer, editor, and educator
- “Lolita in Russian: Translation or Revision?” Zhanna Yablokova, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
