News from Alumni
News from alumni continues to roll in, and it is all quite fascinating. Highlights include: Corinne Oster (PhD 2003), now an Associate Professor at the University of Lille 3, where she runs the...
View ArticleThe Year of Translation: 2009-2010
Whew! This has been an exciting year for translation studies, with a flurry of conference activity, and, surprise, the field seems to have finally arrived in the United States. I have been very busy,...
View ArticleSpringfield activists call for better translation services
A new coalition of community, labor, and religious groups in Springfield, Massachusetts, is calling for a new city ordinance establishing rules for how the police deal with non- or limited-English...
View ArticleRegina Galasso joins translation faculty
We wish to welcome Regina Galasso to the Program in Comparative Literature and MA in Translation Studies Program. She received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Johns Hopkins in 2008...
View ArticleTranslation alumni excel in academia and private sector
The news from our translation alumni continues to amaze us. All are getting great jobs either in academic teaching languages and translation or in the private sector at excellent firms. I just did a...
View ArticleMoira Inghilleri joins interpreting studies faculty
We wish to welcome Moira Inghilleri to the Comparative Literature and the MA in Translation Studies Programs. In a certain regard, Moira is coming home: she received her BA in Sociology and Latin...
View ArticleTransCenter and Nida School offer joint scholarship
The UMass Translation Center and the Nida School of Translation Studies (NSTS) are pleased to offer a joint scholarship for NSTS 2013, to be held May 20-31, 2013 in Misano Adriatico, Italy. The aim is...
View ArticleSummer Medical Interpreting Workshop 2014
The Translation Center runs an online training for its in-house medical interpreters, as required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By popular demand, it has opened its training to non-affiliated...
View ArticleMoira Inghilleri Named Director of Translation Studies
Professor Moira Inghilleri has been named the new Director of Translation Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She adds this title to her already serving as Director of the Interpreting...
View ArticleBarbara Zecchi Named Interim Director of Translation Center
Barbara Zecchi, an Associate Professor who is currently Director of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, has been named Interim Director of the Translation...
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