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Daniel Armenti
Daniel Armenti, a resident of Massachusetts, received his BA majoring in Literature at Bard College. He is interested in Medieval and Renaissance paleography and the uses of language in censorship, and has been awarded a Teaching Assistantship in the PhD program. His languages include Latin, French and Italian.
Jacob Dyer-Spiegel
Jacob Dyer-Spiegel holds a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese. He earned his MA in Caribbean Studies at SUNY Buffalo/Universidad de la Habana (Cuba). He is a Teaching Assistant in the English Dept. at UMass, working on Yoruba religious systems that crossed the Atlantic during the African slave trades.
Maria Gimenez
Maria Gimenez, born in Caracas, Venezuela, joins the MA Program in Translation Studies with a BA in Spanish from Concordia University, a BA in French from Carnegie-Mellon, and a Certificate in Spanish-English Translation from McGill. She currently works as a professional freelance translator and professional proofreader, and will receive a Research Assistantship from the Translation Center.
Christine Gutman
Christine Gutman joins the MA Program in Translation Studies. She received her BA in French at Simmons College (2007). She has worked at the Québec Government Office in Boston and in the Boston French Library and Alliance Française. She did a semester abroad in Aix-en-Provence, where she studied literary translation. She also knows German.
Patricia Matthews
Patricia Matthews received her BA in Comparative Literature and French from the University of Rhode Island. She is currently serving as an English-language Teaching Assistant at the Lycée de la Mer in Bordeaux, France, and will join our PhD program supported by a Teaching Assistantship. Her interests are in critical theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, linguistics and semiotics, aesthetics, sexuality and gender studies.
Erin O’Rourke
Erin O’Rourke has been accepted as an MA student in Translation Studies with a BA in Italian from Bard College, where she also studied Spanish. She has translated poetry, including a series of poems by Pablo Neruda, and has worked on her own creative writing, writing in English, Spanish, and Italian. Her senior thesis project was on film adaptations of a group of novels focusing on post-WWII Italy. Her goal is to become a certified translator.
Claire Sommers
Claire Sommers joins our PhD program with a BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is proficient in French, ancient Greek, Spanish, and Italian languages. She has worked as a secondary education tutor, teaching French, Spanish, Italian, and mathematics to individual middle and high school students since 2000.
Barry Spence
Barry Spence, who resides in Massachusetts, received his BA in Classics from UMass; he joins the PhD program with a Teaching Assistantship. For spring, 2007, he was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in book and paper conservation. His languages are ancient Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
Yuko Takehashi
Yuko Takehashi is currently a graduate student in Political Science at UMass Amherst where she is a Teaching Assistant. She earned her M.A. at the University of Tsukuba in International Politics, and her B.A. at Meiji Gakuin University, majoring in International Studies.
Eyal Tamir
Eyal Tamir earned a BA from Tel Aviv University, Israel in English/Psychology and his MA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in English and American studies, as well as a second MA from Brandeis University in English and American Literature. His specialization is literary theory, film, and popular literature; he is currently a visiting lecturer in Modern Hebrew at Indiana University, and joins our PhD program with a Teaching Assistantship.
Una Tanovic
Una Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) joins us from Sarajevo where she received her BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Sarajevo. While spending a year at Smith College, majoring in American Studies, she served as a conversation partner for undergraduates studying Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian.
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