Selected Topics in Translation Studies

The field of translation studies has grown exponentially over the last few decades generating active debates among translators, scholars, and publishers throughout the world. This course will introduce students to certain vital aspects of the discipline and its intersection with other fields including various national literatures and area studies, linguistics, sociology, philosophy, and others. The course will focus on a specific topic related to the practice of literary translation including the history and theory of translation, linguistic approaches to translation, intermedial adaptation, the politics of world literature, and other emergent areas of scholarship in translation studies.

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