Courses

Offers a survey of theories and practices of literary translation that seek to account for the unpredictable effects of the cultural unconscious in the translator's work. Drawing on a range of psychoanalytic theories of cultural production and translation, the course asks questions about the role of desire in translation, and its multifaceted implications with regards to the translator's agency and her role as cultural producer.

Instructional Format: ONLN

Special reading courses may be arranged with individual faculty members subject to the approval of the Director of the Graduate Program. Reading courses are designed to enable a student to pursue a research interest or acquire special skills which are not covered by available courses.

Instructional Format: DIRD

A survey of the various theoretical approaches to studying translation, since the beginning of the twentieth century. The historical and cultural contexts of appearance of each approach are taken into account.

Instructional Format: BLEN

: Specialized Translation (Literature). This seminar includes a considerable number of practical exercises as well as a theoretical component. Students first examine the principles, methods and objectives common to all fields of specialized translation before analyzing the terminology, knowledge base and writing conventions specific to one particular field.

Instructional Format: ONLN

Cross-listed in English, Humanities, and Translation Studies, this seminar introduces students to the conditions of emergence and development of the discipline of Comparative Literature from its beginnings in nineteenth-century Europe to its most recent global iteration of World Literature. Students will experience how expanded understandings of cultural translation and textuality have radically altered and expanded the Eurocentric character of the discipline. Questions for investigation include: How have the aesthetics and politics of Comparative Literature changed over the past two hundred years? What factors have influenced those changes? How is World Literature related to Comparative Literature? How do both relate to colonial, post-colonial, diasporic, cultural and translation studies and digital humanities?

Instructional Format: SEMR

Introduces students to current research methods in translation studies. It reviews standard methods of reading, collecting, processing and presenting data. Students are also introduced to research ethics.

Instructional Format: ONLN

Special reading courses may be arranged with individual faculty members subject to the approval of the Director of the Graduate Program. Reading courses are designed to enable a student to pursue a research interest or acquire special skills which are not covered by available courses.

Instructional Format: DIRD

Special reading courses may be arranged with individual faculty members subject to the approval of the Director of the Graduate Program. Reading courses are designed to enable a student to pursue a research interest or acquire special skills which are not covered by available courses.

Instructional Format: DIRD

This course explores the translation of cultural practices in various contexts and periods, primarily through non-textual means. Readings and case studies serve as the basis for an examination of the intersections between culture and translation.

Instructional Format: SEMR

Stemming from Translation and Reception theories (Jauss, Iser) and more recent cultural theories (Bassnett, Lefevere), this course highlights some of the issues - political, social, historical among others - that determine the translation of an author in a receiving country. Case studies of Balzac in English and in Chinese serve as a basis of study of his translation/reception in other languages and/or countries. Partant des théories de la réception (Jauss, Iser) et des approches culturelles plus récentes en traductologie (Bassnett, Lefevere), ce cours mettra en lumière quelques-unes des questions, politiques, sociales, historiques et autres qui déterminent la traduction d'un auteur à l'étranger. Des études de cas sur Balzac en anglais et en chinois serviront de base à l'étude de la réception de Balzac dans d'autres langues et/ou pays. Note: The language of instruction will be French when the course is offered by the Graduate Program in French/Francophone Studies, and may be French or English when the course is offered by the Graduate Program in Translation Studies. When offered by the Graduate Program in French/Francophone Studies, more emphasis is put on the analysis of the source text.

Instructional Format: ONLN

This graduate seminar, crosslisted in Translation Studies and Humanities, examines the intersections of travel writing and translation through perspectives that help to see these activities as intertwined, co-constitutive, and often involving parallel processes with shared concerns in practice and in terms of theories brought to bear on their analyses.

Instructional Format: ONLN

Cross-listed in English, Humanities, and Translation Studies, this seminar introduces students to the conditions of emergence and development of the discipline of Comparative Literature from its beginnings in nineteenth-century Europe to its most recent global iteration of World Literature. Students will experience how expanded understandings of cultural translation and textuality have radically altered and expanded the Eurocentric character of the discipline. Questions for investigation include: How have the aesthetics and politics of Comparative Literature changed over the past two hundred years? What factors have influenced those changes? How is World Literature related to Comparative Literature? How do both relate to colonial, post-colonial, diasporic, cultural and translation studies and digital humanities?

Instructional Format: SEMR

This course explores the treatment of translation in science fiction (sf) novels and films, and related writings in the disciplines of Translation Studies and Science Fiction Studies (SFS). Students reflect on communication between humans and beings from other planets, the structure of languages invented by sf writers, aliens as cultural and biological 'others', and the (dis)advantages of sf for understanding translation.

Instructional Format: ONLN

Introduces students to current research methods in translation studies. It reviews standard methods of reading, collecting, processing and presenting data. Students are also introduced to research ethics.

Instructional Format: ONLN

Special reading courses may be arranged with individual faculty members subject to the approval of the Director of the Graduate Program. Reading courses are designed to enable a student to pursue a research interest or acquire special skills which are not covered by available courses.

Instructional Format: DIRD

This course centres on the archive, as a notion and as a practice, and on its relationship with narratives and translation. It covers contemporary approaches to the archive-conceptual and narrative-archives in various forms and media-personal, institutional, visual, poetic, digital-and explorations on how it has been posited, critiqued, and revisited in the humanities. Central to the course are methodological questions about applying the notion, and the archives themselves, to graduate research in the humanities, with particular focus on their locations, their language and languages, and their relationships to writing and translation, and authors and translators.

Instructional Format: BLEN