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March 23, 2021
Gwendolyn Harper (’15) is currently translating Wild Desire and Other Writings, by Pedro Lemebel, for Penguin Classics. The book will be an anthology of crónicas by the...
March 15, 2021
This talk will consider the nature of translation in the context of the philosophy or perfection, as Damion Searls proposes a new way to think about the dynamic interplay...
March 5, 2020
Since graduating from Yale and pursuing an MFA in poetry at Boston University, Laura Marris (Yale ‘10) has been working as a freelance literary translator. In 2013, she...
March 5, 2020
We are pleased to announce that Alyson Waters, Senior Lecturer in the Department of French, Managing Editor of Yale French Studies, and member of the Yale Translation...
February 24, 2020
Eugene Serebryany (YC ‘11): Though my doctoral and postdoctoral work has been in protein biochemistry and biophysics, I have also continued to translate. The Literary Review...
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March 7, 2019
Last fall, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies piloted the Yale Translation Initiative, an interdisciplinary program aimed at...
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February 27, 2019
In a Feb. 2017 lecture, “What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America” at the Whitney Humanities Center, Harold Augenbraum, a career translator...