Minor in Translation Studies
In Spring 2016 I started my journey as a translator when I interned at the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. Soon after, in Fall 2016 I interned at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy where I worked for the visiting fellow from France, Fabrice Balanche. Most of my work consisted of translating his analysis work and his book that is to be published in the Spring/Summer of 2017. I have declared my minor in Translation studies as soon as I was back on campus in January 2017. This minor gives students an opportunity to learn about diverse histories, theories, and practices of translation, through a flexible sequence of courses selected from various departments.
I have since been taking and will keep on taking translation classes. Here you will be able to find some of my work as a translator for my internship, as well as for my classes taken to complete the minor.
Write your own translation of the poem, accompanied by an introduction (± 800 words), in which, based on our theoretical readings so far, you explain and defend your own translation.
An exercise in inter-semiotic translation
Choose a painting, a piece of music, a song, a poem, a dance, a scent, a pain, or any non-verbal thing you like, and inter-semiotically translate it into a short essay.
Final translation project
Choose a literary work to translate. Translate 4000 words and introduce it with a 2000 word introduction about your work.
In order to finish the Minor in Writing, each student has to register in an independent study class with a professor of Comparative Litterature as his or her supervisor. This will give the student the opportunity to work on his or her capstone project.
For my capstone Project I decided to use some translation work I have done during my time as an intern at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. My capstone project explains my work as a translator for Fabrice Balanche working on translating his upcoming book about Syria. I Have worked on translation this book for about six month and wrote my Capstone project about this experience.