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Russian Scholar Alyssa Gillespie Wins Translation
Award 
February 20, 2012
•Chris Milazzo
Notre Dame Associate Professor Alyssa Gillespie’s elegant translation of “Two
Trees Desire to Come Together…” by Marina Tsvetaeva was recently awarded joint
third place in the 2011 Joseph Brodsky–Stephen Spender Prize competition. This
recognition comes just a few months after Gillespie, co-director of the
University’s program in Russian and East European studies,won
second prize in the 2011 Compass Awards, another international poetry
translation contest.
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Mark Roche Honored for Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
January 26, 2012 • Kate Cohorst
Former Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters Dean Mark Roche has been named winner of the 2012 Frederic W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The Ness award is given annually to the book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Roche’s winning book, Why Choose the Liberal Arts? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), “outlines the benefits of a liberal education for all students striving for success in today’s tough economy,” says Pomona College President David W. Oxtoby, the Ness Book Award committee chair. Click here for the full story
German Professor Spreads Love of Language Learning
December 07, 2011 •
Hannelore Weber, an associate teaching professor in Notre Dame’s Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, recently received the Goethe-Institut/American Association of Teachers of German Certificate of Merit. Presented to just four people nationally each year, the award acknowledges educators who have significantly furthered the teaching of German in schools around the United States.
German Professor Robert Norton Wins Translation Prize
November 17, 2011 • Chris Milazzo
Professor Robert Norton, chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, recently received the Ungar German Translation Award for his English edition of Ernst Bertram’s Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, which originally appeared in German in 1918.
Sponsored by the American Translators Association (ATA), which represents 11,000 members from more than 90 countries, the Ungar award recognizes distinguished translations of German literature into English.
Russian Scholar Alyssa Gillespie Wins Poetry Translation Prize
October 18, 2011 • Chris Milazzo
For her deft translation of Nikolay Gumilyov’s “Giraffe,” Notre Dame Associate Professor Alyssa Gillespie was recently awarded second prize in the 2011 Compass Awards, an international Russian poetry translation contest.
Gillespie, who serves as co-director of the University’s Program in Russian and East European Studies, says the award was both unexpected and thrilling. “Poetic translation is something I’ve done ever since I started learning Russian as an undergraduate … so to be recognized for it in this way is pretty special.”
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