John Olsson, Ph.D., professor emeritus of the University of Bangor, Wales, a distinguished world specialist in forensic linguistics, and author of several books, including “Word Crime. Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics”.
Interview with Welsh wordsmith (and forensic linguist) John Olsson Read Post »
Jonathan Meades, a British intellectual, has established a solid reputation with public both within Britain and beyond its borders, in particular in the fields of food, architecture, films (about 25 television documentaries) and writing. Amongst all his professional activities, he served as the culinary critic of The Times of London for several years.
Interview with British linguist (and food, architecture and film critic) Jonathan Meades Read Post »
David Bellos is the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is the author of Romain Gary: A Tall Story (published by Vintage Digital, 2010), and Georges Perec: A Life in Words (published by David R. Godine, 1993) (Prix Goncourt for biography), amongst other books, and the translator of Chronicle in Stone: A Novel by Ismael Kadare (Arcade Publishing, 2011), amongst other translations.
Geraldine Brodie: In some ways I’ve had a circular career. I read English at Oxford, specialising in Old English and Old French language and literature. I’ve always had an interest in language, translation, interculturality and how they affect the way literature crosses borders.
Interview with British wordsmith (and professor of translator studies) Geraldine Brodie Read Post »
Julia Cresswell studied English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, taking the specialist course in Philology and Medieval Literature, before going on to study for an MA in Medieval Literature and a PhD (an edition of a late 15th-century English translation of a French prose romance), both at Reading University. She financed her post-graduate research by university teaching and working as a researcher for OED, and has continued working in much the same way ever since. As well as contributing as a lexicographer to numerous large reference works, she has some 2 0 book titles to her name, mainly in the field of the English language and mythology.
Interview with British wordsmith (and author) Julia Cresswell Read Post »
Tina Kover has been a literary translator for nearly twenty years, translating works of both classic and modern literature including Alexandre Dumas’s Georges, the Goncourt brothers’ Manette Salomon, and Anna Gavalda’s Life, Only Better.
Interview with wordsmith (and translator) Tina Kover Read Post »
We are honored to have as our guest wordsmith Frank Wynne, prestigious literary translator (French>English, Spanish>English). Frank has won numerous prizes for his work. He received the IMPAC award in 2002, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2095 (these two awards being shared with the authors whose works he translated) and the Scott Moncrief Prize in 2008.
Interview with British wordsmith (and translator) Frank Wynne Read Post »
The Bodleian Library (“Bodley” or “the Bod”) is the main research library of the University of Oxford and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It is second in size in the United Kingdom only to the British Library. It serves principally as a reference library. Formally established in 1602, it bears the name of Sir Thomas Bodley, a fellow of Merton College, one of the 38 colleges making up the University.
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, works on the history of the French language and the history of linguistic thought, particularly in seventeenth-century France. Her major research interests include questions of standardisation and codification, linguistic ideology and policy, variation and change, from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Interview with British wordsmith (and educator) Wendy Ayres-Bennett Read Post »
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, works on recovering voices that have been traditionally excluded from the canon of eighteenth-century French literature. Her major research interests include the history of ideas, medical humanities, and autobiographical writing. In July 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Interview with wordsmith (and educator) Catriona Seth Read Post »
