<p>Arts &amp; Sciences faculty are transforming classrooms by taking students into communities, workplaces, and digital spaces, creating lessons that resonate far beyond campus.</p>
This article examines how the act of glossing provides an entry point into how translators of Haitian literature have approached polyglossic Haitian writing and the cultural layers present in Haitian fiction. It then explores how the author has crafted glossaries in the Haitian novels that he has translated to achieve translational goals that challenge the often violent, colonial function of categorizing words in languages other than English, the dominant language of the US literary market. The essay concludes by reflecting on how the glossary might prepare the ground for future readers to relate to Haitian literature beyond colonial, paternalistic, and heterosexist frames.
This essay offers a transnational feminist analysis of the exhibit Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, organized in spring 2021 by curator Jasmine Wahi for the Bronx Museum of the Arts. It examines how Born in Flames deploys a caring curatorial practice that centers the creative projects of Black and Brown artists from different regions of the Global South.
Did Indigenous translators intentionally mistranslate to disrupt colonization? Two WashU scholars explore this question and the crucial role of language in history.
An Interview with Akiko Tsuchiya and her co-editor Aurélie Vialette on their new book, Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain (SUNY Press, 2025).
An undergraduate Spanish course provides a taste of Latin American literature and history.
Using novels and readings from all over the world, an Arts & Sciences course teaches students to look at the stories that exist on both sides of a geopolitical line.
Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance continues to defend the false claim that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been abducting and eating area cats and dogs.
The Ampersand