Adam Translation Project
In the academic year 2012-13 the Department will launch a project, in conjunction with Christopher Mourant, a PhD student in the Department of German, to translate a series of articles by prominent French authors of the 20th century included in the bilingual review ADAM. ‘ADAM International Review’ was an Anglo-French literary periodical published between 1929 and 1988. The ADAM archive was donated to King’s by its founder Miron Grindea, and both Grindea and the review have special links to King’s and to the Department of French at King’s.
The aim is to translate into English a significant body of previously untranslated texts over the course of the academic year 2012-13. Final year students of the ‘Stylistics of Translation’ module 6AAFF332 will be invited to participate in the project, and will work in pairs on 2 texts over the 2 semesters. Texts will be made available via KEATS, and translations will also be submitted via the online learning platform, for review by the module tutors. The translations once complete will be held within the King’s College Archives and will be used to aid Christopher Mourant’s research project.
Students will be fully credited for their work and there will be opportunities for participants to gain archival experience working with original manuscripts. As well as providing an excellent opportunity for practice work on literary translation of the kind that will be assessed in the 6AAFF332 exam, the project is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the translation into English for the first time of significant French writers of the 20th Century.