Persian Translation Prize awarded to Sassan Tabatabai
Sassan Tabatabai won the 2023 Persian Translation Prize for his translation of Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl. Tabatabai holds a prominent position as the head of the Persian program at Boston University, where he regularly teaches all levels of Persian language and literature. His multifaceted expertise extends beyond academia, encompassing roles as a poet, translator, editor, and […]
2021 Fitzgerald Translation Prize Winners Announced
For more information about the Translation Prizes, please visit: http://www.bu.edu/translation/translation-prizes/ Cecilia Weddell (CAS ’15, GRS ’22) was awarded first place in the Fitzgerald prize for her translation of “Before the Trojan War” by Elena Garro from Spanish to English. James Brookes (GRS ’23) was awarded second place in the Fitzgerald Prize for his translation of […]
Jasmine Goggins (CAS ’20) receives Global Korean Scholarship Program
Jasmine Goggins (class of 2020), one of Korean minors who graduated this year, received the Global Korean Scholarship. The program is run by the South Korean government and provides selected international students with opportunities to conduct advanced studies in undergraduate & graduate programs at higher educational institutions in the Republic of Korea. Congratulations Jasmine!
Liling Huang Wins Online Teaching Award For Higher Education
Senior Lecturer Liling Huang is the recipient of the Online Teaching Award for Higher Education from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Distance Learning SIG and Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). ACTFL’s DL SIG is a national special interest group that provides networking and information sharing on strategies, program models, and […]
Irena Katz Awarded Excellence in Part-time Teaching
Congratulations to Russian Lecturer, Irena Katz, who is a recipient of the 2020 Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching. CAS Dean Sclaroff writes, “”Irena has taught first- and second-year Russian at BU, with only a short interruption, since 1988. From the end of the Cold War to the advent of hybrid language courses taught partly […]
Professor Roberta Micallef Wins Susan K. Jackson Award
Congratulations to our very own Professor Roberta Micallef, who is this year’s recipient of the Susan K. Jackson Award. CAS Dean Sclaroff says, “Roberta is dedicated to encouraging creative, worldly thought among her students through her expert teaching and her extensive involvement in the intellectual and emotional growth of the department’s student body. She actively engages […]
2018 Translation Prize Winners Announced
Each year, the Boston University Translation Program and the World Languages & Literatures Department work together to present various prizes in Literary Translation: the Robert Fitzgerald Prize (for a translation into English from any language), the Shmuel Traum Prize (for poetry, fiction, or drama translated into English from French, German, or Hebrew) and the Chinese […]
Two Students Awarded Prizes for Excellence in Hebrew
Two Hebrew awards were given to two students who completed four semesters of Hebrew Arielle Kaim (CAS ’19) and Ethan Sorcher (CAS ’20) Matan Zamir, Israel’s Deputy Consul General to New England, was in attendance at the award ceremony. The evening included refreshments, social opportunities and live music.
Jungsoo Kim Receives STARTALK Grant to Teach Summer Program
Jungsoo Kim, Lecturer in the Korean Language Program, received a STARTALK grant to run a summer teacher training program. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages This is the second time the STARTALK Online Korean Teacher Training program will be offered. The five-week program […]
Liling Huang wins first Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence
Liling Huang, Lecturer of Chinese, received the Cengage Learning Award for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language administered by the National Chinese Language Teachers Association. Liling’s project “Self-paced Online Course of Chinese Pragmatics” was selected as the First Prize winner of the Cengage Award. The project is the first self-paced interactive online course […]