From Moscow to Damascus: Professor Margaret Litvin on the “Lumpy Realia” of Translingual Texts
What happens when you translate a novel that’s already translating between multiple cultures? In a wide-ranging conversation with Yasmeen Hanoosh for ArabLit Quarterly, BU Literary Translation faculty member Margaret Litvin explores the challenges and rewards of working with texts that refuse to stay in a single language. Drawing on her translations of Sonallah Ibrahim’s Ice […]
Professor Vincent featured in The Brink
The Brink highlighted Associate Professor and Literary Translation Studies Director J. Keith Vincent’s Genji poem project. Vincent and his students spent over nine years building Genjipoems.org, home to nearly 800 ancient poems. Read the full article here.