Picture the following scenario, said Visiting Assistant Professor of German Andrew Hamilton at a recent faculty seminar: It’s the early 1800s and two European cavalry officers—let’s say Russians—are ...

Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...

The worst thing about the present, if you’re an artist, is that it never stands still long enough. Once, perhaps, it lingered, back in the days when everyone communicated by letter and Jane Austen ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...

STEALING an idea, words or literary work of others and presenting it as one’s own is called plagiarism, say dictionaries. Some may argue that a same idea may occur to the minds of two different ...

T he most basic questions for any educator are: Why should students listen to me? What claim do I have on the public? When these questions can no longer be answered clearly and convincingly, a ...