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Translation Studies Program Set to Celebrate 35 Years of Success

Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s Translation Studies program will be celebrating its 35th anniversary on April 12-13 and the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies with a full schedule of festivities and programming for its students, faculty, and alumni. â€œWe have the most comprehensive tran…

Tags: College of Arts and Sciences , Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , Translation , Humanities

Kent State Professor to Lead American Translators Association

Geoffrey Koby, Ph.D., professor of Translation Studies and German at Â鶹¹û¶³, has been studying German since he was a freshman in high school. He was recently elected as president-elect of the American Translators Association (ATA), the largest professional language translation as…

Tags: MCLS , Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , Translation , College of Arts and Sciences , Faculty Highlight

MCLS Professor Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2023-2024

Brian James Baer, Ph.D., a professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Â鶹¹û¶³, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Estonia for the 2023-2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He will be teaching and c…

Tags: College of Arts and Science , Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , Translation , Fulbright , Russian Studies

MCLS Professor Receives National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently announced that Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Ph.D., an associate professor of French and Translation in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Â鶹¹û¶³, is one of 22 translators selected to receive a Literature Translation F…

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Just go for it!

Mallory Woods, BS ’22, a Fulbright English teaching assistant posted to Ecuador, encourages others to participate in transformative education-abroad experiences. 

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Kent State Hosts Innovative International Translation Boot Camp

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCLS), in Â鶹¹û¶³â€™s College of Arts and Sciences, recently hosted the Second MEMENTO Boot Camp 2019 – a one-month research camp gathering 20 interdisciplinary researchers from 10 countries and regions, who worked together on the innovat…

Tags: Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies , College of Arts and Sciences , MEMENTO Boot camp , Translation , Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Technology , CRITT , Research , Michael Carl