March 2021

Recordings from Dr. Marlon James Sales’ Sawyer Seminar, “Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest,” are now available on the Department of Comparative Literature YouTube channel. Both the roundtable and book talk between Harold Augenbraum and Gina Apostol can be found below. We also invite you to explore the associated […]

On March 12, 2021 (3-4pm EST) the public was invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. RECORDING OF EVENT HERE  The conversation revolved around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José