Diana Senechal

Diana Senechal is an American teacher, author, and translator. She wrote two books of nonfiction, as well as numerous poems, stories, essays, and translations. She taught in New York City public schools for five years before moving to Hungary in 2017 to teach at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok.^[1]

Senechal received a BA, MA, and PhD from Yale University.^[2]

In 2011, Senechal won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, which is awarded to “an up-and-coming thinker who is recognized as a leader in the humanities”.^[3]

Books

• Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)^[4][5]
• Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012)^[6]

Translations

• Winter Dialogue, by Tomas Venclova, poetry translated by Diana Senechal, with a foreword by Joseph Brodsky and a dialogue between the author and Czeslaw Milosz (Northwestern University Press, 1997)^[7]
• Always Different: Poems of Memory, by Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal (Deep Vellum, 2022)^[8]