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 [...]
News from alumni continues to roll in, and it is all quite fascinating. Highlights include:
Corinne Oster (PhD 2003), now an Associate Professor at the University of Lille 3, where she runs the translation track called MéLexTra (Métiers du Lexique et de lla Traduction) and is organizing a big international conference on translation called Translating Territories [...]
Ayuda! Bangzhu! Au secours! Hilfe! Pomóz nam! Hjälp! Please help us renovate our Language Lab. Dean Joel Martin has challenged us to raise $20,000 by December 31, and will match every gift toward the total renovation goal of $40,000 for a New Multimedia Language Lab. You may give your donation online at https://www.umass.edu/development/give/?a=6. Choose Language [...]
The incoming 2009 graduate class in Translation Studies is our largest group ever, attesting to the growth and success of the program. New students entering the program this year include:
New PhD students:
Eyal Tamir earned a BA from Tel Aviv University, Israel in English/Psychology and his MA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in [...]
The news from Translation Center alumni is good, as many are quite successful. Three recent students–Adam LaMotagne, Elena Langdon, and Maura Talmadge–have all found very nice jobs.
Adam is currently a project manager at Lionbridge in their company headquarters in Waltham., MA. He graduated here in 2004 and served as a project manager here for several [...]