29 episodes

The podcast highlights translators who give presence to foreign writers in English, interviews with writers and their translators, portraits of contemporary international writers, and bilingual readings of poetry. The Podcast is for people who are interested in international literature and cultures. A podcast of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Translating the World with Rainer Schulte Rainer Schulte

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The podcast highlights translators who give presence to foreign writers in English, interviews with writers and their translators, portraits of contemporary international writers, and bilingual readings of poetry. The Podcast is for people who are interested in international literature and cultures. A podcast of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

    Ep. 28: Edward Burke

    Ep. 28: Edward Burke

    In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest co-host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with Edward Burke, a literary magazine flash fiction writer who goes by the anonym "strannikov". You will hear about Edward's journey as a writer, his experiences with poetry, and his perspective on making poetry more accessible to younger generations.



    Edward has published essays since 2011 appearing online in literary journals and magazines, such as Fictionaut, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Miscreant, The Earth Journal, and more. His verse (since 2016) has appeared online in literary journals and magazines, such as Oddball Magazine, and The Courtship of Winds, and in print at Chiron Review.

    • 34 min
    Ep. 27: Sean Cotter

    Ep. 27: Sean Cotter

    In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest co-host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with Sean Cotter, Translator and Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology. You will hear about Sean's journey as a translator of the Romanian, his experience translating Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, and his perspective on the Romanian literary translation scene.

    Sean, an award-winning translator of the Romanian, has published 11 books in English translation. His most recent is Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu for which he received National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship and for which Cărtărescu won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Some of his other works in translation include T.O. Bobe’s Curl and Nichita Stănescu’s Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems, which won the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry in 2013 by Three Percent.

    • 29 min
    Ep. 26: Carmen Boullosa

    Ep. 26: Carmen Boullosa

    In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with renowned author Carmen Boullosa. You will hear about Carmen's journey as a Mexican writer, and gain insights into her visionary perspective on the future of writers and readers.

    Carmen Boullosa is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry and has published nineteen novels (Shelby Vincent translated Heavens on Earth; her most recent novel - The Book of Eve - was translated by Samantha Schnee), as well as four books of essays and ten plays (seven staged). She is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a Cullman Center and DAAD fellow. Winner of the prizes Casa de América in Madrid (poetry), Ibargüengoitia, Villarrutia and José Emilio Pacheco in Mexico, among others.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Ep. 25 Mark Polizzotti

    Ep. 25 Mark Polizzotti

    In this new episode, host Rainer Schulte sits down with Mark Polizzotti for a virtual conversation about poet Arthur Rimbaud. Most recently Mark Polizzotti published The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud. In this volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud’s major poems and letters. 

    Polizzotti has translated more than 50 books from French and he is the recipient of numerous prizes and the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, The Nation, Parnassus, Bookforum, and elsewhere.

    • 41 min
    Ep. 24 Louis Menand

    Ep. 24 Louis Menand

    In this new episode, host Rainer Schulte sat down with Harvard Professor Louis Menand for a virtual conversation on the future of the humanities. In December 2021, Menand published an essay in The New Yorker titled “What’s so Great about Great-Books Courses,” which is certain to be of interest to those who study and teach the Humanities.

    Menand was previously an associate editor of The New Republic, editor of The New Yorker, and contributing editor of the New York Review of Books. He is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2016 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. His most notable book, The Metaphysical Club won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, and the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune. Dr. Menand’s most recently published book, The Free World, offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years and is one of The New York Times’s 100 best books of 2021.

    • 48 min
    Ep. 23: Benjamin Moser

    Ep. 23: Benjamin Moser

    In the season finale, Sarah Valente sat down with Pulitzer Prize winning author Benjamin Moser, for a virtual conversation about their shared love of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Ben is responsible for making Clarice widely available in translation in the English-speaking world. Because of his work, Sarah was able to organize a single author course on Clarice Lispector last spring, where American university students, for the first time in their lives, heard the name and studied the works of this beloved giant of Brazilian literature. Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and his latest book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020.

    This conversation was recorded on August 25, 2021.

    • 36 min

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