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Translating the World Podcast

The Center for Translation Studies launched the Translating the World with Rainer Schulte podcast at The University of Texas at Dallas, on Aug. 28, 2020.

The podcast highlights translators who give presence to foreign writers in English, interviews with writers and their translators, portraits of contemporary international writers and scholars, and bilingual readings of poetry. The podcast is for everyone who is interested in international literature and cultures.

A part of the UT Dallas CometCast Network, the podcast is available on anchor.fm/translation and on all podcast platforms, such as Apple PodcastsGoogle Podcasts and Spotify.

Latest Episodes

  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]
  • 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 […]