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Boston University—MFA in Literary Translation [1]

MFA
Boston
MA
United States
Genre: 
Translation
Application Fee: 
95
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
1 Year
Incoming Class Size: 
6
Application Deadline: 
June 1, 2025
Core Faculty Includes: 

Odile Cazenave, Yuri Corrigan, Margaret Litvin, Christopher Maurer, Roberta Micaleff, Stephen Scully, Sassan Tabatabai, J. Keith Vincent, William Waters, Dennis Wuerthner, Catherine Yeh, Anna Zielinska-Elliott

Website: 
https://www.bu.edu/translation/mfa [2]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers merit scholarships of up to 50 percent of full-time tuition to MFA in Literary Translation applicants. Please e-mail Anna Zielenska-Elliott at aelliott@bu.edu [3] about additional funding opportunities.

Other Features: 

The two-semester curriculum includes courses in translation history and theory, language-specific workshops, and advanced literary study. The program includes a specially designed course in English style for translators.

The program currently accepts students translating from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Ancient Greek, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Persian, Russian, Spanish, or Turkish into English.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
aelliott@bu.edu [3]
Contact Name: 
Anna Zielinska-Elliott

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/mfa/boston_universitymfa_in_literary_translation [2] https://www.bu.edu/translation/mfa [3] mailto:aelliott@bu.edu