Category: Center for Translation Studies

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UT Dallas recently announced a major gift from alumnus Richard Kurjan MS’82 to name the school’s Center for Translation Studies after its founder, Dr. Rainer Schulte. According to Kurjan, the gift acknowledges the world-renowned expert in literature translation who he credits with deeply […]

The University of Texas at Dallas will recognize 14 outstanding faculty members at its 2023 Investiture Ceremony, to be held April 14 at 2 p.m. in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building Lecture Hall. The event honors faculty members who have recently been named to endowed professorship and chair appointments. The ceremony also recognizes […]

How does knowledge change as it moves from one academic language culture to another? How “placed” are our intellectual concepts? In what ways does the dominance of English-language scholarship shape the production of knowledge around the world? Who is qualified to undertake a scholarly translation? The Translational Knowledge Symposium, sponsored by the UT Dallas Office […]

The upcoming issue of the Translation Review, published by the UT Dallas Center for Translation Studies, provides an in-depth look at Korean literature. Guest edited by translator Bruce Fulton, the issue includes a Weblogger’s Roundtable featuring Tony Malone, Philip Gowman, and Colin Marshall; and the transcript of a speech given by Jennifer Crewe of Columbia […]

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in humanities from Bucknell University, Stacey Knepp MA’09 knew she wasn’t done with the work she had started as an undergraduate. “I had taken numerous years of ancient Greek, translating Greek text,” Knepp said. “UTD was one of a few universities in the country offering a graduate-level program in translation […]

Translation Review (TR), a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1978 by Dr. Rainer Schulte and published three times a year by UTD, is distributed internationally by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. The upcoming issue, TR 107, is due to be released in October. Recent articles can be found here; with full access through the UTD library. The […]

The Center for Translation Studies has launched a new podcast that highlights translation, translators, international writers, editors, and publishers. Targeting those who are interested in international literature and cultures, the Translating the World podcast is primarily hosted by Dr. Rainer Schulte, professor of arts and humanities and the Katherine R. Cecil Professor in Foreign Languages, […]

The UT Dallas Center for Translation Studies, one of the oldest academic centers for literary translation in the U.S., recently marked its 40th anniversary. The center was created in 1978 by Dr. Rainer Schulte, professor of arts and humanities and the Katherine R. Cecil Professor in Foreign Languages, with the purpose of fostering and promoting […]