Just because the voice is unfamiliar to us, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be heard. Translation, the changing of languages and the writing of one’s own voice are work that matters to Elena Messner.  This author and scientist, is currently a FWF Senior Post-Doc researcher (Elise Richter Programme) at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, with a project on translations in feminist periodicals from Ex-Yugoslavia. She studied Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in Vienna and Aix-en-Provence. From 2013-2018 she was teaching German and Austrian studies at the University in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. She has also been teaching at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Klagenfurt since 2014.