Director of Canadian Studies Rich Watts and colleagues Michael Biggins, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Heekyoung Cho, Asian Languages and Literatures, were awarded a 2020-21 grant to continue developing programs and activities on new research in translation studies, including program building at the graduate level and the creation of alternative professional pathways for graduate students. The UW Translation Studies Hub, in its second year of support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, aims to coalescence translation-related energies across campus and in the community, providing a space for everyone from literary translators to researchers in natural language processing and machine translation. Rich Watts brings his interest in Canadian de jure bilingualism and de facto multilingualism to bear on the Translation Studies Hub’s programming. Along with colleagues in Germanics and Scandinavian Studies, he is also the recipient of funding to bring lecturers to UW (virtually, for now) around the theme of Transcultural Approaches to Europe.
Funding continues for UW Translation Studies Hub

September 18, 2020