Language and Translation

Language and Translation

episodes

Interviews with scholars of language and translation about their new books.

Multilingualism, Migration, and Domestic Work

November 4, 2026

Multilingualism, Migration, and Domestic Work

Sandra Issel-Dombert
Hosted by Ingrid Piller

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Ingrid Piller speaks with Professor Sandra Issel-Dombert. Sandra is Professor of Spanish Linguisti…

Education That Reflects Local Language, Culture, and Country

October 28, 2026

Education That Reflects Local Language, Culture, and Country

Carly Steele

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Agi Bodis speaks with Dr Carly Steele (Curtin University, Perth) about researching education w…

Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible with Harry Spillaine (Bodleian, 2026)

October 24, 2026

Selling the Word of God

Harry Spillaine
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible (Bodleian, 2026) by Dr. Harry Spillane is a history of the English Bible as…

Runes: A Concise History with Tom Birkett (Oxford UP, 2025)

October 23, 2026

Runes

Tom Birkett
Hosted by Jana Byars

Tom Birkett, University College, Cork, joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, Runes: A Concise History (Oxford UP, 2025) An accessible and illumina…

Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use

October 21, 2026

Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use

Priyanka Bose

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah chats with Dr. Priyanka Bose. Priyanka is a lecturer in English Literacy Education…

Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions: The Roots of Modern Korean with Daniel Pieper (U Toronto Press, 2026)

October 21, 2026

Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions

Daniel Pieper
Hosted by Leslie Hickman

Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions: The Roots of Modern Korean (U Toronto Press, 2026) traces the emergence of vernacular Korean as a distinct …

Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David Shuang Song (U of Minnesota Press, 2026)

October 17, 2026

Multiracial Mandarin

David Shuang Song
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Who has the “right” to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language (U Minnesota Press, 2026), Dr. David S…

Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo with Timothy Thurston (U Washington Press, 2025)

October 15, 2026

Satirical Tibet

Timothy Thurston
Hosted by Magna Mohapatra

The podcast episode with with Timothy Thurston covers his book Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo U Washington Press, 2025). …

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's March 1917 with Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney (U Notre Dame Press, 2017)

October 12, 2026

March 1917

with Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney

In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson facilitates a conversation between Marian Schwartz and Dan Ma…

Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Towards a Poetics of Illness Experience with Laurence J. Kirmayer (Cambridge UP, 2025)

October 11, 2026

Healing and the Invention of Metaphor

Laurence J. Kirmayer
Hosted by Anya Daly

It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. Healing and the In…

Silence in Mood Disorders: A Philosophical Investigation with Dan Degerman (Routledge, 2026)

October 10, 2026

Silence in Mood Disorders

Dan Degerman
Hosted by Carrie Figdor

Silence is frequently considered negative or harmful in both everyday life – for example, when we are silenced – as well as in psychiatry, where pover…

Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100 with Kalman Weiser (Wayne State UP, 2026)

October 9, 2026

Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America

Kalman Weiser
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

This comprehensive history of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—a groundbreaking American Jewish cultural organization, library, and research cen…

David Bentley Hart on Life, Literature, and Baseball (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)

October 9, 2026

A Gathering of Leaves

David Bentley Hart
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with David Bentley Hart about his book, A Gathering of Leaves: Extravagances and Ephemera, from the University of Notre Dame Press.…

Think of England: Nation, People, and Race in the English Imagination with Paul Kléber Monod (Cambridge UP, 2026)

October 7, 2026

Think of England

Paul Kléber Monod

What is the basis of English national identity? How has this changed over time, and what is its future? Tracing the history of English identity over m…

Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)

October 2, 2026

Rhetorical Powers

Sasikumar Sundaram
Hosted by Sachin Nikarge

Recent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North …

Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination with N.S. Gundur

October 1, 2026

Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination

DR Nagaraj translated by NS Gundur
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.  In his last, profoundly innovative work Alla…

Ilan Stavans on Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation

September 30, 2026

Building Restless Books and Publishing in Translation

Ilan Stavans
Hosted by Sarah Russo

How does an independent press survive by publishing the books the Big Five overlook? Amherst College professor and Spanglish scholar Ilan Stavans join…

Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico

September 24, 2026

Tsunami

Heather Cleary and Gabriela Jauregui eds.

Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico (Feminist Press, 2025) gathers the multiplic…

Nathan Wainstein, "Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel" (JHU Press, 2026)

September 23, 2026

Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel

Nathan Wainstein
Hosted by Daniel Moran

What does it mean for a modernist novel to fail?Modernism famously celebrates rupture, difficulty, and deviance from literary norms—but that very embr…

How Were Foreign Languages Taught in Early Modern Europe?

September 23, 2026

How Were Foreign Languages Taught in Early Modern Europe?

Professor Dr. Natalia Filatkina, Dr. Kerstin Roth and Research Associate Miriam Hinterholzer

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Professor Dr. Natalia Filatkina, Dr. Kerstin Roth and Research Associate M…