BU Literary Translation Seminar Lecture Series
The Boston University Literary Translation Seminar, offered every spring at BU for almost 40 years, and taught this year by Will Waters of World Languages and literatures, was given shape and nurtured for its first three decades by the distinguished poet and translator Rosanna Warren. Our guest lecturers have shared both practical and theoretical approaches to translation. They have included many of the most celebrated writers, translators, and translation scholars of the era.
Lectures are held Fridays 1-3pm in STH 625, at 745 Commonwealth Avenue, and are open to the campus community and the public. Please remind your students, including those enrolled in courses on translation.
Schedule:
January 26, 2018: Efraín Kristal
Fictional Knights, Araucanian Heroes and Literary Translators
February 2, 2018: Caroline Alexander
On Translating Homer’s Iliad: ‘Lessons from the Master’
February 9, 2018: Jahan Ramazani
The Language of Lyric: Untranslatable or World Literature?
February 23, 2018: Christopher Childers
Translating Meter, from Sappho to Horace
March 16, 2018: Kerim Yasar
Burn While Reading: Subtitle Translation and Poetics of the Impossible
March 23, 2018: Charlie Louth
Poem upon Poem: Poets Translating Poets
April 6, 2018: Michael Katz
Translation Matters:
April 13, 2018: Anthony Chambers
Tanizaki’s Reader on Style: Theodore Dreiser, National Character, and Translation
April 20, 2018: Lindsey D. Snyder
Surely You Gesture: Translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language
Details on the Seminar and lecture series are available at http://www.bu.edu/translation/