2020-12-14
- Our affiliate faculty, a teaching professor in the Department of French & Italian, Eda Derhemi, has worked together with Francesco Ferrari to translate the Albanian novel “Miele sul Coltello” into Italian.
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- 2020-11-20 - Our second webinar on MA application Process will be held on Nov. 20, 3:00 pm CST. If you would like to know more about admission requirements, admission deadlines, documents required for application, etc., this is the event for you! Please register HERE! Hope to see you next Friday!
- 2020-11-06 - Theoreticians of translation and interpreting studies have consistently emphasized the deficiency of simplistic notions of "fidelity," "accuracy," and "equivalence" when dealing with the complexities of bridging linguistic and cultural worlds. Nowhere is it more important to contest and complicate these notions than in interpreting for speech-language pathology assessments. What...
2020-11-05 - Hadi Umayra, a graduate of the MA program in Translation Studies in 2018, who is doing his PhD in Translation Studies with a focus on literature concentration at the University of Texas at Dallas, has two newly published translated books from Arabic into English: Widows' Doomsday and A Piece of Night! ...- 2020-10-23 - Our alumnus Tim Gregory, who is a professional interpreter and translator, was recently interviewed by Intralingo on his translation of a novel from Arabic. Watch his interview with Intralingo Inc. HERE!
- 2020-10-19 - Our faculty will provide an overview of our MA curriculum and explain: how our multilingual approach works in practice; the differences and similarities between completing the program on campus or fully online; specializations in professional translation, literary translation, or interpreting. Our alumni will share their experiences in the program and in the...
- 2020-10-08 - The Global Education Symposium 2020 will take place virtually October 14-17, 2020. For more information and to register, please visit https://go.illinois.edu/GES20
- 2020-09-18 - Carlos Díaz, Manager, In-Language and Fernando Gutiérrez, Product Owner from In-Language will talk about what it’s like to work as translators for State Farm, within the wider context of the role of translation in a globalized industry. Eric Hughes, RDC Oversight Manager from the Research Park will explain the role of the Research Park, and they will all explain the details of their...
2020-04-11 - We are delighted to announce that the IPRH has recognized Dr. Ahyad’s expertise and the value of translation studies by awarding her a fellowship to conduct research during summer 2020. Dr. Ahyad’s project is to translate Manahil Sindi’s novel Nisf Estiwa (“Half-Cooked”) from Makkan to English. The project has three parts: the translation of Manahil Sindi’s novel Nisf Estiwa...
2020-02-03 - A University of Illinois professor emerita and a former professor have been awarded Literature Translation Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Armine Kotin Mortimer is a professor emerita of French literature. Elizabeth Lowe, a professor of translation studies, is the founding director of the U of I’...- 2019-12-12 - The Center for Translation Studies was privileged to participate in a recent podcast with our friends at Argo Translation, focusing the conversation on the value of an MA degree in Translation & Interpreting, as well as the importance of close ties between the language industry and academia. Have a listen!
- 2019-03-27 - A great review of Edgar Garbelotto's translation of a novel called 'Lord,' by the celebrated Brazilian writer João Gilberto Noll, has just appeared in the New York Times. Edgar, one of our currently graduating students, has recently been on a book tour promoting this novel. It’s a moving testament to Edgar's translation skills that the novel has been so well reviewed, and especially in a...