"Does Global Literary Studies Have an Agenda for Translation Studies?" is a roundtable that features the faculty members most responsible for the design of UW’s proposed new major in GLITS. Faculty and audience participants will discuss the role that Translation Studies at UW can play to the optimal benefit of a well-rounded curriculum and student learning in the new program.
Two emerging programs at the University of Washington and supported by the Simpson Center, The Translation Studies Hub and Global Literary Studies (GLITS) offer cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. "Does Global Literary Studies Have an Agenda for Translation Studies?" is a roundtable that features the faculty members most responsible for the design of UW’s proposed new major in GLITS. Faculty and audience participants will discuss the role that Translation Studies at UW can play to the optimal benefit of a well-rounded curriculum and student learning in the new program.
The event will take place via Zoom on November 19 at 12:30pm and include presentations by:
- Gordana Crnković (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature)
- Gary Handwerk (English, Comparative History of Ideas, and Comparative Literature)
- Naomi Sokoloff (Near Eastern Literatures & Civilizations and Comparative Literature)
Following the presentations, there will be a lively audience discussion in exploring the principal opportunities, both broad-based and specific, that these two emergent programs at UW can offer each other as they contribute to the wider dissemination and appreciation of global literatures.
C.R. Grimmer (she/they)
C. R. Grimmer is a poet and scholar from Southeast Michigan's Metro-Detroit area. C. R. received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington (UW) as well as their M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in English Literature at Portland State University (PSU). They are the author of The Lyme Letters, which won the Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech University Press.