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 [...]
Julie Hayes, Chair of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (LLC) Department at UMass, has a new online publication that may prove very useful to translation studies scholars. Her database French Translators, 1600-1800: An Online Anthology of Prefaces and Criticism has just been made available online through ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst. This corpus of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French translators’ [...]
The UMass Translation Center announces the new group of incoming translation students/scholars for the Fall 2008 term:
Lenita Esteves (Brazil) is on sabbatical from her job as Professor of Translation Studies at São Paulo and will spend her fall semester with us at the Translation Center. She received her PhD from the Universidade Estadual [...]