Graduate Student Conference on “The Ethics of Translation and Interpreting" to be held on April 2-3, 2021
March 30, 2021
Graduate students in Comparative Literature will host the biannual Translation Studies Conference on April 2-3, 2021: “The Ethics of Translation and Interpreting." All events will be online and...
25 years of The Translator: Mona Baker, Moira Inghilleri and Dirk Delabastita in conversation with Sue-Ann Harding and Loredana Polezzi (open access)
January 21, 2021
This conversation, which took place in the summer of 2020, traces 25 years of publishing The Translator, from its inception and early days, to its establishment as a leading international...
Alex Ponomareff Successfully Defends Dissertation Tuesday October 6 2020
October 07, 2020
On October 6 2020 Alex Ponomareff successfully defended his dissertation “Salvage Media: A Materialist Inquiry into the Limits of Visual, Aural, and Textual Clarity.” ...
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- Excellent student-faculty ratio
- Intellectual diversity and a global curriculum
- Lively in-class discussions
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