PALA/CE Faculty News

Literary Hub has recently featured an excerpt from Can Xue’s Love in the New Millennium in their Daily Fiction section, following its official release by Yale University Press last month. 

Translated by the Academic Director of CALA’s MS in Translation program, Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, Love in the New Millennium is one of the most ambitious works of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today. The darkly comic novel tells the story of a group of women who inhabit a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.

Read “The Antiques Appraiser” here: https://lithub.com/the-antiques-appraiser/

Interested in furthering or pursuing a career in translation?

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

This Tuesday, November 27th, John Tauranac will be discussing his newest book, Manhattan’s Little Secrets: Uncovering Mysteries in Brick and Mortar, Glass and Stone. The event will be held at 6pm at the NYU Bookstore (726 Broadway).

John Tauranac’s Manhattan’s Little Secrets deals with subjects that guidebooks usually ignore and passersby ordinarily overlook. A sarcophagus stands in a public park, and the stones from the donjon that had incarcerated Joan of Arc now serve as the base for a statue that honors her.  An architect’s likeness is worked into the statuary of a building that he designed (and, no, it’s not Cass Gilbert in the lobby of the Woolworth Building), a Richard Haas trompe l’oeil doesn’t fool all the eyes, and there’s a reminder of the NYU’s first building on Washington Square.

About the Author:

John Tauranac writes on New York City’s social- and architectural history, he teaches the subject at NYU’s School of Professional Studies, where he is an adjunct associate professor, and he designs maps. In addition to Manhattan’s Little Secrets, Tauranac’s books include the three editions of New York From the  Air  (Abrams); The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark  (Scribner and Cornell), Elegant New York (Abbeville), and Essential New York (Holt Rinehart & Winston), not to forget Manhattan Block By Block: A Street Atlas (Tauranac Maps). Tauranac has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Observer, Travel & Leisure, New York Magazine, and other publications. Tauranac was named a Centennial Historian by the Mayor’s office for his work in history, he was awarded a Commendation for Design Excellence by the U. S. Department of Transportation and the National Endowment of the Arts for his role as the creative director of the 1979 subway map, and he was given an award for Teaching Excellence by NYU’s School of Professional Studies in 2006. 

This Spring, John Tauranac will be teaching NEW YORK’S GREAT STRUCTURES: BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, TUNNELS, AND MORE (NYCM1-CE9003 )

See our website for more details or to enroll: https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/courses/NYCM1-CE9003-new-york-s-great-structures-buildings-bridges-tunnels-and-m.html

An excerpt from Can Xue’s Love in the New Millennium, expertly translated by the Academic Director of the MS in Translation, Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, has been published in the Harper’s Magazine November issue. Can Xue’s novel has been hailed as “the most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today.” The excerpt, entitled “Train Dreams,” gives readers an enticing glimpse at the novel in anticipation of its full release by Yale University Press on November 20th.
Check it out here: https://harpers.org/archive/2018/11/love-in-the-new-millennium-can-xue/

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions.

Interested in furthering or pursuing a career in translation?

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

NYUSPS CALA Translation instructor Françoise Herrmann has recently published the first in a six-volume series of books on patents translation texts, Patents on the Soles of Your Shoes. The book is based on a blog of the same name that she founded in 2013, which has captured the rich history of inventions—everything from the Etch-a-Sketch to 3D printed pizza—and what they tell us about technological innovations and cultural shifts. Find out more about the book, which is available for purchase on Amazon, below.

List price : $28.00
6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
136 pages, Full color