Greetings, fellow translators and interpreters. I hope everyone is staying healthy in this difficult environment. I also hope you will enjoy the new edition of the Gotham which begins with a profile of our President, …
Meet Our President: Milena V. Savova
A native of Bulgaria, Milena brings a wealth of language experience to the Circle. Interested in languages from childhood, she learned French at home, studied English, Russian and German in high school and went …
Bilingual Reading to Celebrate Women in Translation Month
On August 27, 2020, PEN AMERICA sponsored an online reading by five authors and translators to celebrate Women in Translation Month. The event featured works in Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Sinhalese and Turkish. After the author’s …
NYCT’s Machine Translation Meeting of September 21, 2020
On Monday September 21, 2020, the Circle presented an online seminar entitled “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Translation and Future Linguists Like You.” The presenter was Professor Graham Neubig from the Carnegie Mellon Language Technologies Institute. Professor …
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
This edition of the Gotham takes a bit of a literary turn with “594 Ways of Reading Jane Eyre,” an article by Bonnie Chau reprinted with the permission of Poet’s and Writers, Inc. The article …
594 WAYS OF READING JANE EYRE
By: Bonnie Chau Last summer, University of Oxford professor Matthew Reynolds, in collaboration with an international team of more than two dozen scholars, launched Prismatic Jane Eyre, a research project that explores the relationship between …
5TH ANNUAL NYCT LITERARY TRANSLATION OPEN MIKE NIGHT
On May 13, 2020 the Circle celebrated its Fifth Annual Open Mike Literary Translation night. Kate Deimling, VP of the Circle, introduced and moderated the on-line event which highlighted the translated works of eight Circle …