WLT’s executive director, editors, and staff all deeply mourn the passing of David L. Boren, who died on February 20, 2025. Nick Hathaway, who served as a vice president at the University of Oklah…
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February 21, 2025
September 12, 2023I walked into Webster’s, a local café in State College, Pennsylvania, to meet a professor for the first time to discuss a project on literary translation. He was new to the Department of Comparative L…
August 24, 2023Hamdi Abu Golayyel (b. 1967) was a gifted storyteller who fused Egyptian oral storytelling, myth, and folklore to tell the tales of marginalized and working-class communities in Egypt. He died on June…
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