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Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos is a junior at the University of Michigan majoring in International Studies, with minors in Translation and Latin American Studies. He began working as a volunteer translator for Freedom House while a student at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, before eventually transferring to UM. Before moving to Michigan with his family …

“Translation for the Community”: An interview with Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos Read More »

“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare’s Juliet asks, lamenting her family’s objection to her relationship with Romeo, the son of a rival family, just because of his last name. But Juliet herself is known by many different names, depending on the place where her story is told, and the language used there. The story in …

What’s in a Name? Authors’ Names between Languages and Scripts Read More »

What’s Wrong with this Picture? These images are taken from the HathiTrust repository. This is a text written in Persian by Sayyid Jamāl al-Din. What’s wrong with it? It is upside down, and it appears backward, with the volume beginning on the last page (the 36th and last page of the digital version contain the …

Text Accessibility and Non-Roman Script Systems on HathiTrust Read More »

Written by Marina Mayorski (Graduate Student Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, University of Michigan) As a scholar of Judaic Studies, I study literary texts written in three different Jewish languages – Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish. Searching academic repositories for material written in non-Roman writing systems can be an excruciating task. Consider the following title, taken …

The Multivalence of Hebrew Alphabet Across Jewish Languages in the HathiTrust Repository Read More »

In the first installment of this Mellon-Sawyer seminar series, the scholars who led the conversations in Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience went beyond textual illustrations of this theme. Interestingly, several sessions were linked by their relation to visual culture. The materials explored during the seminar converged in their incorporation of …

The Midwest Through Jewish Eyes: A Network of Visual Culture Read More »

Yopie Prins and Silke-Maria Weineck convened a two-day virtual seminar on “Translating the Midwest” at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.  The seminar explored how different language communities in the Midwest represent themselves in various forms of literary production and translation, and considered why this “regional” perspective should change how we …

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