Sophie Klein: “Translating Medea: The Poetry and Drama of the Woman and the Play”
By Sloane McLean Boston University’s own Dr. Sophie Klein, a senior lecturer in the Classical Studies department, spent this past summer reading her translation of Euripides’s Medea out loud to her dog. Her canine companion, as she quipped at her talk on April 3rd, couldn’t respond back, but the act of saying the words she […]
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 […]