OnTranslation
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Season 2-Episode 014: How not to review a translation?
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Mohammed Albakry and guest Hans Gabriel discuss the best practices and the do’s and don’ts of reviewing literary translation...
Season 2-Episode 013: Updating Shakespeare’s language: Translation or adaptation?
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A panel of theater practitioners and academics discusses the challenges of updating and modernizing Shakespeare’s plays for a contemporary English...
Season 2-Episode 012: What is translationese?
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Mohammed Albakry discusses the notion of “translationese,” what we mean by it it, as well as its main distinguishing featu...
Season 2-Episode 011: Translating the Odyssey
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Mohammed Albakry talks to Jesse Peart about the translation history of Homer's Odyssey into English and the differences amo...
Episode 010: Bible Translation
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Mohammed Albakry talks to Payton Armstrong about the history a of Bible translation, the main biblical genre, and the different ...
Episode 009: Metaphors of Translation
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the different metaphors used to represent the act of translation, and what they can tell us about the status of translation and transl...
Episode 008: Science Fiction in Translation
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Mohammed Albakry interviews translator and editor Rachel S. Cordasco on translating science fiction and speculative fiction. Moh...
Episode 007: Translating Humor
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the challenges in translating different types of humor, from linguistically embedded forms such as puns to more "prosaic" ty...
Episode 006: Voices in Translation
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Mohammed Albakry interviews Lynn Palermo, a translator from French. They talk about her work translating Fabienne Kanor's n...
Episode 005: Translation as Scholarship
30 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the way translation and translators have been historically undervalued, and the changing status of translation in academia, especially...
Episode 004: Translating Idioms & Proverbs
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the challenges and opportunities in translating idioms and proverbs across languages and cultures, with examples from across the globe...
Episode 003: Dialects in Translation
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion of the problems presented by dialects to the translator, with examples covering Flannery O'Connor, Aristophanes, and Mark Twain.Than...
Episode 002: Bodies & Spirits
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning from Montequieu's pseudotranslated Persian Letters (1721) and delving into the legends of the Septuagint translation, Mohammed and Jose...
Episode 001: Translation Visibility
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to the podcast and your hosts, Mohammed and Joseph, including a brief overview of topics and issues to be covered in future episodes.T...