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 [...]
Edwin Gentzler, Director of the Translation Center and Professor of Comparative Literature, recently published his new book Translation and Identity in the Americas (London: Routledge, 2008).
Building on research from a variety of disciplines, including cultural studies, linguistics, feminism, and ethnic studies, and covering translation studies research from Brazil, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this [...]