{"id":223,"date":"2013-09-21T23:09:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T03:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:37:42","slug":"guest-lecturers-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/guest-lecturers-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecturers – 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

2018 Translation Seminar Guest Lecturers
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Lectures are held Fridays 1-3pm in STH 625, at\u00a0745 Commonwealth Avenue, and are open to the campus community and the public.<\/p>\n

January 26, 2018:\u00a0Efra\u00edn Kristal
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Fictional Knights, Araucanian Heroes and Literary Translators<\/p>\n

Efra\u00edn Kristal<\/strong> is professor of Spanish, French and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a specialist of Latin American literature in comparative contexts and in translation studies. He has published over 90 scholarly articles and several single author and edited books including Invisible Work. Borges and Translation<\/em>, a book on Jorge Luis Borges\u2019 work as a translator and the significance on translation in his creative process, and Poems of the Night<\/em>, a bilingual edited volume of Borges\u2019 poetry published by Penguin Classics. His work on translation also includes the essay on philosophical and theoretical approaches to translation for the Blackwell Companion to Translation Studies<\/em>; and essays on translation and the creative process in Yves Bonnefoy, Marcel Proust and Nicanor Parra. He has also written on the role of translation in Colonial Spanish American literature. He is currently writing a book on the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, and translating a book on aesthetics from the Italian by Remo Bodei.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>February 2, 2018:\u00a0Caroline Alexander
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On Translating Homer’s\u00a0Iliad<\/em>: ‘Lessons from the Master’<\/p>\n

Caroline Alexander<\/strong> is the author of seven books of non-fiction including the international best-sellers The Endurance: Shackleton\u2019s Legendary Antarctic Expedition<\/em> and The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the <\/em>Bounty. Her most recent book The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad and the Trojan War<\/em>, led to the commission to make a new English translation of the Iliad<\/em>, which was published to acclaim in 2015, by Ecco Press\/HarperCollins. Alexander has also written for The New Yorker<\/em>, Smithsonian<\/em>, and National Geographic Magazine<\/em>, where she was a contributing writer for many years. Her most recent magazine publications include a National Geographic Magazine<\/em> cover story on blast-induced TBI in the military. A Rhodes Scholar and Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Alexander received her doctorate in Classics from Columbia University in 1991. Between 1982-85, Alexander established a department of Classics at the University of Malawi, in Central-East Africa.<\/p>\n

February 9, 2018: Jahan Ramazani<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The Language of Lyric: Untranslatable or World Literature?<\/p>\n

Jahan Ramazani<\/strong> is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is writing a book on poetry in a global age. His five previous books are Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres<\/em> (2013); A Transnational Poetics <\/em>(2009), winner of the 2011 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, awarded for the best book in comparative literary history from 2008 to 2010; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English <\/em>(2001); Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney <\/em>(1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime <\/em>(1990). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry <\/em>(2017); a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry <\/em>(2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature <\/em>(2006, 2012, 2018); and an associate editor of The<\/em> Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics <\/em>(2012). He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA, and the Thomas Jefferson Award, the University of Virginia\u2019s highest honor. In 2016, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

February 23,\u00a02018: Christopher Childers
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Translating Meter, from Sappho to Horace<\/p>\n

Christopher Childers<\/strong> has an MFA in Poetry from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he teaches classes in creative writing and poetry translation in the Writing Seminars. He is at work on a volume of verse translations for Penguin Classics entitled\u00a0Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry from Archilochus to Martial. <\/em>His original poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Smartish Pace, The Dark Horse, Barrow Street, <\/em>and elsewhere; his translations in The Kenyon Review, Agni, The New Haven Review, The PN Review, Arion, <\/em>and elsewhere, and his essays in Parnassus, The New Criterion, <\/em>and Literary Matters, <\/em>among others. He is original poetry editor for Classical Outlook, <\/em>a\u00a0quarterly journal of the American Classical League, and has been a finalist for the Ruth Lilly prize from Poetry<\/em> Magazine. One of his poems, “Three Nails,” was a finalist in the Southwest Review<\/em>‘s poetry contest and another,\u00a0“Frames for my Father,” won the poetry contest at the Briar Cliff Review. <\/em>He is a 2018 recipient of a literary translation fellowship from the NEA for his translations of classical lyric poetry.<\/p>\n

March 16, 2018:\u00a0Kerim Yasar
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Burn While Reading: Subtitle Translation and the Poetics of the Impossible<\/p>\n

Kerim Yasar<\/strong> (Ph.D., Columbia) is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. He specializes in modern Japanese literature and cinema, media history, and translation studies. He is also active as a translator in a variety of genres and media\u2014from contemporary novels to pre-modern poetry to the subtitles for more than a hundred feature films in the Criterion Collection\/Janus Films library, including classic works by directors such as Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasujiro, and Oshima Nagisa\u2014and worked as an editor of translations from the Japanese for two years at Vertical, Inc. in New York City. His first book, Electrified Voices: Auditory Technology and Culture in Japan, 1868-1945<\/i>, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press later this year.<\/div>\n

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March\u00a023, 2018: Charlie Louth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poem upon Poem: Poets Translating Poets<\/p>\n

Charlie Louth\u00a0<\/strong>(Ph.D., Cambridge) is a Fellow of The Queen\u2019s College, Oxford, and Associate Professor of German at the University of Oxford. His\u00a0main research interests include poetry from the 18th century onwards, especially Goethe, H\u00f6lderlin, M\u00f6rike, Rilke and Celan; romanticism; translation; and comparative literature. He translated H\u00f6lderlin\u2019s letters (Friedrich H\u00f6lderlin, Essays and Letters<\/em>, tr. with Jeremy Adler (Penguin, 2009)), and made a new translation of Rilke\u2019s\u00a0Letters to a Young Poet<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Letter from a Young Worker<\/em> (Penguin, 2011). He has also, with Patrick McGuinness, edited A C. H. Sisson Reader<\/em> (Carcanet, 2014), and was guest editor of a special issue of Agenda<\/em> on Sisson in 2011. With Florian Strob, he edited \u2018Eine Schwester Kafkas?: Nelly Sachs im Kontext<\/em> (Winter, 2014). His first book was H\u00f6lderlin and the Dynamics of Translation<\/em> (Legenda, 1998), and he is currently completing a book on Rilke.<\/p>\n

April 6, 2018: Michael Katz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translation Matters:<\/p>\n

Michael R. Katz<\/strong> is the C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his D. Phil. From Oxford University. He has taught at Williams College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College. He is the author of two books, The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1976) and Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction<\/em> (University Press of New England, 1984). He has translated more than fifteen Russian novels into English, including works by Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. His two most recent translations are The Kreutzer Sonata Variations: Lev Tolstoy’s Novella and Counterstories by Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2014) and Dostoevsky\u2019s Crime and Punishment<\/em> (Norton, 2017).<\/p>\n

April 11, 2018:\u00a0Luis Negr\u00f3n and Suzanne Jill Levine<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Reading and Conversation with Luis Negr\u00f3n and Suzanne Jill Levine<\/p>\n

Luis Negr\u00f3n<\/strong> was born in the city of Guayama, Puerto Rico, in 1970. He studied journalism and has written film\u00a0reviews for major Puerto Rican periodicals including Claridad and El Poeta. Negr\u00f3n\u2019s work explores the complex intricacies that come with being Latino and identifying as part of the LGBT spectrum, as well as what connects them to others. He has worked extensively in the queer arts community in Puerto Rico, including a founding role in Producciones Mano Santa<\/em>, which has sponsored cultural and artistic productions over the last ten years. He co-edited Los Otros Cuerpos<\/em>, an anthology of queer writing from Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora. Negr\u00f3n\u2019s work won him the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014, the\u00a0fi<\/span>rst translated work to do so.<\/p>\n

Distinguished Professor at the University of California and noted translator of Latin American literature by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cort\u00e1zar and Manuel Puig, Suzanne Jill Levine<\/strong> is Director of Translation Studies at UCSB. A poet and also the author of numerous critical and scholarly works, her books include Untranslatability Goes Global: The Translator\u2019s Dilemma<\/em> (Routledge, 2018), The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction<\/em> (Graywolf Press and Dalkey Archive) and Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions<\/em> (Farrar Straus & Giroux) Among her latest translations is Eduardo Lalo\u2019s USELESSNESS, for the University of Chicago Press, which came out Fall 2017.<\/p>\n

April 13, 2018:\u00a0Anthony Chambers
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Tanizaki’s\u00a0Reader on Style<\/em>: Theodore Dreiser, National Character, and Translation<\/p>\n

Anthony Hood Chambers<\/strong> is a translator of Japanese literature, most notably of fiction by Tanizaki Jun\u2019ichir\u014d, including Naomi<\/em> and Captain Shigemoto\u2019s Mother<\/em>; and Ueda Akinari\u2019s Tales of Moonlight and Rain<\/em>, for which he received the 2007 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He has also published translations of Hara Tamiki, Hirano Keiichir\u014d, Kamo no Ch\u014dmei, Kanze Kojir\u014d, Kineya Sh\u014djir\u014d, Minakami (Mizukami) Tsutomu, Mishima Yukio, Miyamoto Teru, Natsume S\u014dseki, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, Tate Shir\u014d, and Zeami. He is the author of The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki\u2019s Fiction<\/em> (1995) and Remembering Tanizaki Jun\u2019ichir<\/em>\u014d and Matsuko<\/em> (2017). A Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, he has also taught at Wesleyan University, the Associated Kyoto Program, and the Kyoto Japan Center.<\/p>\n

April 20, 2018: Lindsey D. Snyder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surely You Gesture<\/em>: Translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language<\/p>\n

Dr. Lindsey D. Snyder<\/strong> is a ASL interpreter, Shakespeare\/Performance studies scholar, and theatre practitioner. She completed her PhD in theatre and performance studies at the University of Maryland, College Park with her dissertation \u201cSawing the Air Thus: American Sign Language Translations of Shakespeare and the Echoes of Rhetorical Gesture,\u201d which is currently being updated for publication in 2018. This year Lindsey was awarded a short term fellowship with the Folger Shakespeare Library to continue her research on gesture and sign\u00a0languages \u00a0In 2016-2017 she was awarded a Doris Duke Building Demand for the Arts grant in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center working as an Artist in Residence. Lindsey has interpreted countless performances\u00a0ranging from classical texts to musicals to performance art. \u00a0She also works with\u00a0interpreters as an educator and mentor. Currently, Lindsey is the Director of Education for Faction of Fools Theatre Company, a staff interpreter for the Federal government, and an Adjunct Professor for various universities in the\u00a0Washington DC area.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2018 Translation Seminar Guest Lecturers Lectures are held Fridays 1-3pm in STH 625, at\u00a0745 Commonwealth Avenue, and are open to the campus community and the public. January 26, 2018:\u00a0Efra\u00edn Kristal Fictional Knights, Araucanian Heroes and Literary Translators Efra\u00edn Kristal is professor of Spanish, French and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a specialist of Latin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7827,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}