Translating Languages and Cultures

Creative Writing and Literary Translation

NICOLE COOLEY, English, Director, MFA in Creative Writing Program
This year, the English Department at Queens College welcomed the new Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation....

Translation as preservation: A conversation with author Rigoberto González

KEN NIELSEN, CUNY Writing Fellow
On an early December afternoon in 2007 I sat down to talk with Rigoberto González, prize-winning author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, about the translation component of the new MFA program in creative writing at Queens College....

My Life as a Linguistic Contortionist

ANNA OBRAZTSOVA, CUNY Writing Fellow
Speaking more than one language is often seen as an asset, especially in a multi-cultural, multilingual environment like New York City. At Queens College, linguistic diversity is only as far away as the next study group or classroom....

The Art of Translating Data: Experiences from Interview Research in Sociology in Japan and the U.S.

NORIKO MATSUMOTO, CUNY Writing Fellow
Involvement in two American-based research projects in sociology in Japan has offered me the opportunity to interview over seventy native “informants”....