There is a common misconception in literary publishing that books for children and young adults are “simple” and are, therefore, easy to translate. But translating literature for younger people is not simple at all. How does the process of “curating”...
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Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment with Sawad Hussain
In an interview for the humanities magazine Callaloo, Etheridge Knight described the goal of the poetry he wrote while incarcerated as a method of meditating on "the subject of oppression." While critics have often argued that Knight renders that subject...
This talk illuminates a history of belonging across boundaries that has been overshadowed by Eurocentric narratives of white colonial masters and native mistresses. Between 1840 and 1940, millions of people arrived in Burma, also known as Myanmar, from other parts...
Drawing on experiments from the Viral Texts project ( https://viraltexts.org), this talk will reflect on the relationship between bibliography & AI in two directions. First, the talk will consider how bibliographic methods can help scholars, as D.F. McKenzie wrote of...
What exactly sells in translation and what role does a translator play in the selling of their translation? With the public profile of the translator becoming more visible, this seminar will pick apart the marketing tools that today’s translators are...
Brandon Som, the 2025 Roethke Reader, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2024 for Tripas: Poems. He is the author of Babel’s Moon (Tupelo, 2011), winner of a Snowbound Chapbook Award, and The Tribute Horse (Nightboat, 2014), winner of a Nightboat Poetry Prize...
Representation is not a passive act of recording; it is an active, constructed practice. In Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS), this refers to the visuality participate in the construction of techno reality; in humanities, it involves examining how different...
Please join us as this year’s Undergraduate Research Grant awardees share their research with the GWSS community. This event is an opportunity to engage with emerging scholarship in gender, women, and sexuality studies and to celebrate the work of our...
What lessons can be learned from the past, when movie theaters were filled with cinephiles and VHS technology created an alternative cultural space? Underscoring the margins of cinema and media studies, three scholars discuss the long-lasting legacies of the film...