INTERVIEW Lyda RuijterThe interviewer Gaston DorrenThe interviewee Gaston Dorren, a Netherlands-based writer and linguist, has published three Dutch books on language. One of these was published in English as Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages, and translated into several other languages. He has contributed to popular linguistics magazines in the Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, Norway and […]

YouTube, en essayant d'en capter le ton et les tournures de phrase. Vicente est également attentif au ton et au débit de ceux qu'il lui arrive d'interpréter. Si Trump crie, il crie aussi; si le candidat chuchote, il chuchote aussi. «Il nous faut mimer, en langue étrangère, ce qu'ils font,» dit-il. Vicente a interprété le

 We are delighted to welcome to our blog a new contributor, Juliette Scott, Ph.D. In 2011, Juliette  created the blog From Words to Deeds: Translation and the Law, with the aim of building bridges between translation and legal professionals, and between academia and practice. As a legal linguist with 25 years’ experience in translation and

 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW    The interviewer Trudy Obi The interviewee Catriona Seth Trudy Obi holds a PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley, where she wrote a dissertation on conceptions of intellectual labor in early modern Europe. Her research interests include rhetoric and humanist pedagogy, French literature, and neo-Latin poetry. She has worked as an in-house French to

An Interview With Jean Moorcroft Wilson By Hannah Hunter Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) was born in England to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He was a satirical poet who also wrote prose but who gained prominence for his poems of World War1– a war in which he performed acts of great bravery

Our guest this month, Annie Freud is a distinguished British poet and one of the members of the Freud lineage to gain fame for their intellectual achievements. She is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud, the maternal granddaughter of sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. [1]  Freud was educated at the Lycée

Our present guest is a little less famous than the other lusophone, Ferdinand Magellan,  but like that historic voyager, Ewandro Magalhães (the Portguese equivalent of the name Magellan) has blazed trails and  straddled continents. Magellan’s successes rested on the might of his sword to conquer foreign lands, whereas Ewandro has used the power of his pen, the agility

E X C L U S I V E   I N T E R V I E W    The following interview was conducted by Skype between Los Angeles and Cartagena, Spain.                                                 

Yanky Fachler kindly acceded to our request and  travelled to Cambridge to interview Professor Nicholas de Lange, the English translator of over a dozen books by Israeli author, Amos Oz, including Judas, which was short-listed for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. An ordained Reform rabbi, Professor de Lange is Emeritus Fellow and Professor of

  The interviewee: Nicole Nolette joined the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, as Assistant Professor of French Studies in July 2017.  She is the recipient of the Ann-Saddlemyer prize, awarded by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, and also the winner of the award for best work in theater research for the period 2014-2016,