Texas Tech University

Faculty Translation Panel

Faculty Translation Panel
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
English 201
3:00-4:00 p.m.

A faculty panel presented original papers with discussion focused on understanding how knowledge in language is translated from one culture to another. Essays by Drs. Martin Puchner and Haun Saussy were springboards for the panelists' papers and conversations. The following papers were presented as part of the panel:

Kanika Batra, Associate Professor - English
"Book, Booker, Booked: Caribbean Creole and the Translation of Urbanism"

John Beusterien, Professor - Spanish
"A Future for the Humanities: The Remainder and the the Failure of Translation"

Yuan Shu, Associate Professor - English
"Reading Huan Saussy's Macaronics at the Planetary Level"

Wyatt Phillips, Assistant Professor - Film and Media Studies
"The Logic and Limit of the Translation Analogy for Trans-Medial Adaptation"