Check out the article: Somerville School Committee meetings have translators for non-English speakers (wickedlocal.com)

Jeff Diteman delivered a fabulous presentation as part of our Spring 2021 Translation Close-Up Series a few weeks ago. Now, he is on to become a faculty member at the Banff International Literary...

Online Interpreting Students Collaborate with UMass Amherst Dining Services on Service Learning Project...

In February, the Translation Center at UMass Amherst launched their second workshop series in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). During this...

Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers...

I write to you today as I reckon with the sorrow and outrage brought on by recent unconscionable acts of racial violence and institutional racism. The deep anxiety already experienced by Black communities during the ongoing pandemic has been compounded by the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor—only the latest in a centuries-long line of brutal acts of racial violence. As Chancellor Subbaswamy issued a statement to the larger campus community, I wanted our HFA community to know that we hear you and support you during this troubling time. Silence is not the answer.