Tag: Bill Johnston

Workshop Again, a Chair, and a Commons

After a decade and a half, I’ve returned to teaching a graduate-level translation workshop. The last time I did this was at the University of Iowa in 2012. So, not yesterday. Except maybe in the Beatles’ sense. This was my long-time colleague Bill Johnston’s course at Indiana University for more than twenty years, and when… Continue reading Workshop Again, a Chair, and a Commons

Quotidian Dread and AI

It is the kind of dread that seeps. It’s not apocalyptic. Just the sort of thing that can eat up your livelihood. An example. I am aware that my own work, both translations and non-translated writings, was used in the creation of Meta’s AI, without my permission. Like many colleagues, I searched and found the… Continue reading Quotidian Dread and AI

The Promise of Translation

I was reading Peter Brooks’ review of two new Proust translations in the NYRB for March 21, 2024 (“In Search of His Vocation”) and came across a passage quoted from Le Temps retrouvé that Brooks calls the book’s “titular claim”: ‘I slowly became aware that the essential book, the only true book, was not something… Continue reading The Promise of Translation