Russia in Boston Featured on BU Today!
Russia in Boston, an advanced class taught by Professor Kogel, was featured in BU Today! In this immersive class, students connected with the wider Russophone community of Boston, expanding both their language skills and their perspectives. You can read all about it here.
New Profile on Professor Margaret Litvin
BUCH has produced a new profile on Professor Margaret Litvin, discussing her background in journalism and her research into the connections between the Soviet and Arab worlds. You can read it here.
Here Where the River Forever Divides Them in BU Today
Last week’s BU Today featured an article about Here Where the River Forever Divides Them, a hybrid Noh/opera piece designed and performed by Japanese major Chris Ellars for their senior thesis. You can check out the article, which includes quotes from Chris and images from the production, here!
Yoon Sun Yang Featured in New Articles!
The WLL Korean program is booming, and it is not going unnoticed! Professor Yoon Sun Yang has been featured in two recent articles from BUCH and BU Today! You can read more about our thriving Korean program here, featuring quotes from professors Yoon Sun Yang and Dennis Wuerthner and Korean major Gisele Sanchez! To learn […]
LH 340 in Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Annual Report
The 2023-24 report from the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies has a feature on LH 340, Israeli Media and Society! The article includes quotes from Professor Angrist and testimony from students- you can read all about it here starting on page 46!
Found in Translation- New Article About Literary Translation MFA!
A new article about our MFA in Literary Translation was just posted in the BU Arts x Sciences magazine, featuring quotes from program director Anna Zielinska-Elliott and MFA student Evan Laufman! You can read it here.
Literature and Thought in Transwar Japan(04/18)
How do we read an idea when it appears in the literary form of a novel, poem, or translation, rather than in the expository form of philosophy per se? My 2022 book Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought thinks through this question by tracing the connections between the realms of literature and […]
Penguin to Publish Sassan Tabatabai’s Translation from Persian
Professor Tabatabai has signed a contract with Penguin to publish his translation of Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl, which is one of the most significant Persian novels of the 20th century. He was working on this project during his Professional Development leave last semester. The Boston Experimental Theatre Company performed The Blind Owl in 2015, sponsored […]
Visiting Scholar Laetitia Zecchini Publishes Interview with Poet Karthika Naïr
Laetitia Zecchini is a tenured research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). Her research interests focus on contemporary Indian poetry, on postcolonial modernisms and on the politics of literature. She has recently published an interview with Poet Karthika Naïr. Please click here to read the full interview.
Part-Time Lecturer, Canaan Morse, Publishes Translation
Part-Time Lecturer in Chinese Canaan Morse has published a translation of Peach Blossom Paradise from Chinese into English. Please click here to view the publication from New York Review Books. Congratulations, Canaan!