{"id":16707,"date":"2018-09-11T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:47:43","slug":"nicholas-huckle-translates-french-art-historians-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2018\/09\/11\/nicholas-huckle-translates-french-art-historians-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Huckle Translates French Art Historian&#8217;s Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/nicholas-huckle\/\">Nicholas Huckle<\/a>, Master Lecturer in French, is translating from the French a number of letters written by the art historian\u00a0Hubert Damisch, penned to the American art historian Meyer Schapiro. These letters, part of a long-running correspondence between the two well-known academics (Schapiro wrote to Damisch in English), date from the early 1970s. They cover mostly Damisch\u2019s time spent as a fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, and they make particular reference to a lecture Damisch gave there, \u201cSign\/or\/sigm: Freud and the name of Signorelli.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/jeffrey-mehlman\/\">Jeffrey Mehlman<\/a> was at Cornell at the time. He attended that lecture, and he is mentioned in the correspondence: \u201cThere is also Jeffrey Mehlman, an assistant professor in the French department, whom I had met before in Paris. He is a specialist on Lacan (of whom he is a translator), and on L\u00e9vi-Strauss (the subject of his thesis); he has a brilliant mind, and is also very personable and engaging company\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>The translated letters will appear in the Winter 2019 issue of OCTOBER, along with two other pieces that Nick has translated: a previously untranslated article by Damisch and an introduction composed by J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Koering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, is translating from the French a number of letters written by the art historian\u00a0Hubert Damisch, penned to the American art historian Meyer Schapiro. These letters, part of a long-running correspondence between the two well-known academics (Schapiro wrote to Damisch in English), date from the early 1970s. They cover mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16708,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions\/16708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}