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I've been meaning to tell you all that I created a tumblr this past semester, ostensibly to collect all the things I find online that I want to show my translation theory students. I'm calling it "tonightteatee" as a reference to "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", which is one of our early readings. (ETA: Because our class number is 290T. ( Read more... )

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So, the month of conferences continues apace. I still need to write up the second day of the ACLA, but I have to say, I find it much easier to livetweet conferences these days and then storify them. Sadly, this tech did not exist in the three years of the graduate student translation conference we shared with SUNY Binghamton and called Binghamherst ( Read more... )

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I'm auditing Old Irish this semester to keep my language skills sharp (which is a lot easier after teaching it over January, thank goodness) and we are moving from the Merugud Uilix Maicc Leirtis (sadly, because honestly I cannot get enough of this 300 lines of Irish Odyssey, so awesome) to the Life of St. Brigid. Let me tell you exactly ( Read more... )

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Oh, hey. Turns out the abstracts for the ACLA are due on Thursday, not in January. The January deadline was for the undergraduate seminar only. Go-go gadget skimming ( Read more... )

The "original version" of the Odyssey.

And it's in English.

With no translator listed.

Yeah, I don't even know.

ETA: Amazon's got the "look inside" feature on this, and I haven't checked it against the existing text, but it looks, tastes, ans smells like Pope to me. Now I'm pissed. Homer doesn't fucking rhyme you philistines ( Read more... )

If you google "Euripides Bakkhai," my thesis pops up as the 3rd result, after an Amazon listing and a Google Books listing ( Read more... )

There was a professor from Kent State's translation studies program at the conference who had 20 minutes yesterday to talk about academic publishing. He's the founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies. Maria pushed me hard to talk to him before the conference was over, to see if he thought my paper was something his ( Read more... )