The Program in Comparative Literature, which houses a dynamic Translation Studies Program, and is a unit of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has extended its search for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, now to begin January, 2012, but could also begin September 2012. The successful candidate will teach consecutive [...]
A new coalition of community, labor, and religious groups in Springfield, Massachusetts, is calling for a new city ordinance establishing rules for how the police deal with non- or limited-English speaking citizens. The coalition is called the Pioneer Valley Project, and members met with the Springfield City Council last month.
Springfield is typical of many American [...]
Whew! This has been an exciting year for translation studies, with a flurry of conference activity, and, surprise, the field seems to have finally arrived in the United States.
I have been very busy, giving papers at over a dozen venues, from distinguished lectures and keynote addresses to papers on panel discussions. For me, the highlight [...]
“The Tasks of Translation in the Global Context” was the presidential theme this year at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009. Catherine Porter, MLA President, Professor in Humanities at Cornell, and translator of contemporary French philosophy, including the works of Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, and Jean-Didier Urbain, [...]
A new report by the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice reveals that translation issues still trouble the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). While the FBI has translated and reviewed 100% of the written texts it has collected, there are huge backlogs in terms of translation of electronic and audio files: 31% of [...]