Translating the World with Rainer Schulte

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When reading a text in translation are you reading the author’s writing or the translator’s writing? Listen to this thought-provoking conversation in which author Claudia Hamm and translator Johnny Becker discuss Claudia's essay entitled, “Who does a translated text belong to?” published in Germany's leading intellectual review Merkur in April 2018. In this rich discussion our guests and hosts address issues of equivalency and voice in translation. This episode invites you to explore how to approach translated texts from a new perspective. This conversation was recorded on September 10, 2021.

In this episode, we speak with poet, translator, and professor Julia Leverone. Julia is the creator and editor of AzonaL, an online poetry-in-translation magazine. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in Comparative Literature with a primary focus on Latin America and a second focus on the poetry of the United States in the 20th century. Over fifty of her translations of poems from the Spanish have been published in literary venues such as Witness and the Boston Review and she has published two chapbooks. This conversation was recorded on August 16, 2021.

In this episode, guest host Shelby Vincent speaks with translator, writer, and editor Samantha Schnee. Schnee's translation of Carmen Boullosa’s penultimate novel, The Book of Anna, was published by Coffee House Press last year, and her translation of Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. Listen to this insightful conversation to learn about Schnee’s process of translation, her experience as founding editor of Words Without Borders, which by now has published issues from 140 countries from more than 120 languages, and her exciting reading recommendations for listeners. Schnee's intellectual and creative energy is sure to inspire translators, writers, and readers alike. This conversation was recorded on June 9, 2021.

Spanning six decades and circling the globe, Dr. Samuel John Hazo’s creative work includes poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and various works of translation. Listen to his conversation with Sarah and Rainer to learn about the remarkable founder and director of the International Poetry Forum, which ran from 1966 until 2009 in Pittsburgh. Sam Hazo recalls insightful memories about his experiences hosting hundreds of distinguished poets and performers from around the world, from poets like Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Nobel Prize winners like Octavio Paz to public figures such as the Princess Grace of Monaco. This episode also features Hazo’s beautiful poetry, which he masterfully recites by heart, inspiring listeners to fall in love with the art of poetry. His latest book, The Next Time We Saw Paris is now out. This conversation was recorded on August 13, 2021.

As civil engineer in Madrid since 2003, Javier García del Moral built highways and bridges in Spain, Ireland, the Middle East and the US. Then, he began to build cultural bridges through his love of books, literature, and languages. In 2014, Javier founded The Wild Detectives bookstore bar in Dallas, along with his longtime friend Paco Vique. He currently directs the bookstore with the help of many friends. In 2019, Javier also founded the Spanish restaurant Sketches of Spain. Listen to this delightful conversation with guest hold Shelby Vincent, to learn about Javier's story and The Wild Detectives bookstore. This conversation was recorded on June 8, 2021.

In this new episode, host Sarah Valente interviews multi Emmy-award winning American film director Rick Wallace. Learn about his decades of experience directing almost 100 hours of prime time television, both series and movies for television, and also producing over 250 hours of television. Some of the shows he has directed and produced include Hill Street Blues, LA Law, NYPD Blue, The Closer, and Law and Order SVU. Listen to this exciting episode to learn how the arts, humanities, and creative thinking set Rick Wallace on the path for a successful career in film and television.

In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte introduces one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth-century: Stéphane Mallarmé. His poetic creations deeply influenced the poetic thinking of twentieth-century poets. Listen to learn about the French poet Mallarmé (1842-1898).

In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Austrian poet and author Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). A recipient of the Prize of the Group 47, Georg Buchner Prize, and Anton Wildgans Prize, Bachmann's poetry reflects the political realities from her youth. Listen the our New Poetic Vision series today to travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry with Professor Rainer Schulte and learn about poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz (1914-1998). Recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century, Paz was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1982, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. In this episode, Schulte discusses how Octavio Paz introduces us to a different way of thinking in the 20th century when we are confronted with literary works or essayist works. Listen the our New Poetic Vision series today to travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry with Professor Rainer Schulte and learn about poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), whose famous works include Duino Elegies (1922), Sonnet to Orpheus (1922), and Letter to a Young Poet (1929). In this episode, we learn how Rilke contributed to create a different way of creating situations through his writings. Travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry with Professor Rainer Schulte and learn about poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Listen to the New Poetic Vision series today!

Today we introduce New Poetic Visions. In this new series, Professor Rainer Schulte presents 20th century modern poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the second episode of this new series, Schulte discusses the influential Austrian writer, poet, novelist, and playwright Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016). Join us in the New Poetic Visions series, as we travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry.

Listen to an invigorating conversation with award-winning publisher, translator, bookstore owner, writer, and literary arts advocate Will Evans. He is the founder and CEO of Deep Vellum Publishing, a nonprofit literary arts organization founded in 2013, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories, and making our world a more literary place through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts. In this episode he discusses what inspired him to get into translation and publishing, and the history of founding Deep Vellum Books, a bookstore in Dallas’s historic Deep Ellum, in 2015. Evans graduated from Emory University with degrees in History and Russian Literature, and received a Master’s degree in Russian Culture from Duke University. His translation of Russian writer Oleg Kashin’s political satire novel, Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin, was published by Restless Books in 2016. In October 2019, Will Evans was awarded CLMP’s Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Literary Publishing. Our guest host for today’s episode is Shelby Vincent. Shelby Vincent is a Research Associate in the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, she is also managing editor of Translation Review, as well as a lecturer in the University’s School of Arts and Humanities, and a translator from the Spanish.

Today we introduce New Poetic Visions. In this new series, Professor Rainer Schulte presents 20th century modern poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the first episode of this new series, Schulte discusses the influential French poet, critic, and acclaimed translator Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Join us in the New Poetic Visions series, as we travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry.

In this episode we discuss Improvisation with Kathy Lingo, a Theatre and Stage Film Actor and Director, Forensics Coach and is a Professor of Instruction teaching Acting for Screen, Improvisation, Reader’s Theatre and Oral Interpretation. She has taught at the University of Texas at Dallas for over 20 years and has been teaching for over 35 years. Her student, Kirtana Kalavagunta, a senior majoring in Computer Science and minoring with a Theatre degree, joins the conversation adding her unique perspective on how Kathy's improvisation class has improved her life. Listen to this exciting conversation to learn how improvisation can change cognitive ability, physical energy, listening skills, and teaches us to enjoy the moment and find peace in a noisy world.