Student Spotlight: María Antonia Blandón on Translating her Father’s Diary of Captivity
We are proud to feature MFA in Translation student María Antonia Blandón in a recent episode of the CFD Conversations podcast from BU’s Center for Forced Displacement, where she has been in residence as a fellow this year. The episode explores Maria Antonia’s recently completed capstone project editing and translating a private diary kept by […]
Lecture in Review: Translating Translation: Multilingual Texts in Taiwan’s Literature by Lin King
By Cheryl Ong Having weathered Acela seat-assignment bungles and battled through what she described as Boston’s “coffee shop wasteland” (relative to New York City, anyway), acclaimed translator Lin King arrived at Boston University on April 17 to give her highly anticipated lecture on “Translating Translation: Multilingual Texts in Taiwan’s Literature.” The talk capped off a […]
To Seek or to Stay? Thoughts on Waley’s Genji
Welcome to the new blog for faculty and students in BU’s program in Literary Translation, a place to share observations about the art of translation that come up in the process of translating or writing about translation. I thought I would kick things off by sharing a few thoughts about one of my favorite translations, […]