Profession 2010
By: [Editor, Rosemary G. Feal ; Managing Editor, Carol Zuses]
Contributors: Modern Language Association of America; Association of Departments of English; Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (U.S.)
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781603291019
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Language and education; Literature; Study and teaching; Study and teaching (Higher); Modern Language Association of America; Periodicals; Language and languages
Description: "This issue of Profession contains Catherine Porter{u2019}s introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2009 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Emily Apter, Sandra Bermann, Tom Conley, Verena Conley, Jonathan Culler, Brett de Bary, Peggy Kamuf, Marjorie Perloff, Naoki Sakai, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Lawrence Venuti. The issue also features a section on disability and language. Introduced by Petra Kuppers, the section includes essays by Michael Berube, Kristen Harmon, and Margaret Price. The issue{u2019}s other essays are by Marjorie Garber, Katie Hogan, Michelle Masse, Linda Ray Pratt, James P. Purdy, Sidonie Smith, Jennifer Summit, Joyce R. Walker, Lesley Wheeler, and Tara Williams." --
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Presidential Forum : The Tasks of Translation in the Global Context. Introduction / Catherine Porter; title: Translation "on the Line" / Tom Conley; title: Living in Translation / Verena Conley; title: Translation and the Figure of Border : Toward the Apprehension of Translation as a Social Action / Naoki Sakai; title: Translating in a World of Languages / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; title: Practicing and Theorizing Translation : Implications for the Humanities / Brett de Bary; title: Philosophical Translation and Untranslatability : Translation as Critical Pedagogy / Emily Apter; title: Passing Strange : The Laws of translation / Peggy Kamuf; title: Translation, Empiricism, Ethics / Lawrence Venuti; title: Teaching in, and about, Translation / Sandra Bermann; title: Teaching Baudelaire, Teaching Translation / Jonathan Culler; title: Teaching Poetry in Translation : The Case for Bilingualism / Marjorie Perloff; title: Disability and Language. Introduction / Petra Kuppers; title: Term Paper / Michael Berube; title: Mental Disability and Other Terms of Art / Margaret Price; title: Addressing deafness : From Hearing Loss to Deaf Gain / Kristen Harmon; title: The Financial Landscape of Higher Education : Mapping a Rough Road Ahead / Linda Ray Pratt; title: Literary History and the Curriculum : How, What, and Why / Jennifer Summit; title: Shakespeare in Slow Motion / Marjorie Garber; title: The Value of the History of the English Language Course for the Twenty-First Century / Tara Williams; title: Valuing Digital Scholarship : Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work / James P. Purdy and Joyce R. Walker; title: The English Major as Social Action / Sidonie Smith; title: On Capstones, Service Learning, and Poetry / Lesley Wheeler; title: Tips for Service / Katie Hogan and Michelle Masse; title: Forum.