Kristen Jacobsen and Cindy Brewer, German and Russian Department Introduction Although the German colonial period only lasted for a relatively brief time, from the late nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth century, this period spawned a large body of fiction written by missionaries. Many missions had serial newsletters, in which were published fictional […]
“Womenomics:” Translating Women’s Property Rights for a Global Audience
Taylor Madsen and Dr. Daryl Lee, BYU French and Italian Department Introduction With the belief that we could make the world better by improving the quality of life for women, our team of three student translators and one expert mentor undertook the challenge to translate and publish the results of two years of gender studies […]
Learning Armenian and English Pronunciation
Anna McConner-Hughes and Dr.Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Linguistics Department Introduction The purpose of this study is to examine the learning of English consonants by native Armenian speakers. In particular, we examined how the native Armenian speakers perceive and produce English voiced and voiceless ‘th’ sounds (as in the words thy and thigh (/ð/ and /θ/ in IPA)). […]
THE FAILURE OF A LATIN AMERICAN BESTSELLER: Researching the Reception of João Guimarães Rosa in the United States
Andrew Kelly Nelson and James Krause, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Of all Latin American authors, the works of João Guimarães Rosa present some of the greatest difficulties for translators. He experienced laudable critical success throughout Latin American and Europe, but–for reasons that are under investigation–received a tepid reception in the United States. This project […]
A Digital Epigraphic Database: Partnership with Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing
Nozomu Okuda and Dr. Roger Macfarlane, BYU Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Digital epigraphic databases can be of interest to scholars who study the past. Epigraphy — a word which combines the two Greek roots epi-, meaning “above” or “on,” and graphe, meaning “writing” — is the study of inscriptions. Among the epigraphic […]
A New Approach to Museum Exhibits
Allison Rietz and Kerry Soper, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature Introduction This project deals with museum exhibits, the primary cultural product used to justify a museum’s existence; they are also the face of the museum that the public sees. However, because museums are a mix of visual and literary aspects, the point of an exhibit […]
Ida Pfeiffer: The Annotated Travels of Ida Pfeiffer
Alexander Smith and Dr. Rob McFarland, Department of Germanic and Slavic Before beginning this project I was aware of the vast variety of literature available in both English and German language. Having been fortunate enough to work with Dr. McFarland already on the Sophie Project, an undertaking of the Department of German and Russian here […]
Problems with Mission Literature and Imagination: German Mission Literature, 1885-1918
Eric Smith and Cindy Brewer, German and Slavic Language Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century mission literature differs from most colonial texts, due to the missionaries’ treatment and focus upon the “native” population. Yet, most literary critics believe that Catholic and Protestant mission literature—particularly texts in African and Polynesian island missions—share the same roots and literary forbearers […]
Translation from French to English of a Women’s Rights Study by a Senegal Research Group
Danielle Stanford and Daryl Lee, French and Italian Introduction The goal of this project was to make an academic study on women’s property rights in Senegal accessible to a non-French speaking audience. The study was conducted by a university research group on gender issues (GESTES) at the Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. I worked […]
Big Humanities, Big Data: Genre Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Poetry
Brittany Strobelt, Kylan Rice, Dr. Matthew Wickman, and Dr. Billy Hall, English Department The continual digitalization of society has not only permeated research in the Humanities, but is constantly revealing just how crucial it is to the Humanities’ future. Whereas research in the Humanities is normally limited to a very narrow dataset, digital humanities tools […]
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