by Shannon Prevost
The Chaucer Studio and Global Chaucers will be working together in the near future to provide and create recordings of The Canterbury Tales in different translations. We learned from Michael Calabrese of California State University that “the idea of translating Chaucer in different languages for global access is an inherent part of what we would like to do.” The co-directors of the studio are pleased to collaborate with Global Chaucers to provide more readings of Chaucer’s works in translation.
The first planned recording will be in Spanish, read by Christina Gomez, executive director of the studio.
In the future we will work with interested parties to record either already existing translations or new translations. Global Chaucers and the Chaucer Studio will work together to provide global distribution and access. We are currently soliciting participants who’d like to translate and/or record with us.
The new set of co-directors at Chaucer Studio are:
- Michael Calabrese (California State University, Los Angeles)
- Tom Burton (University of Adelaide)
- Regula Meyer Evitt (Colorado College)
- Cathy Hume (University of Bristol)
- Joseph Parry (Brigham Young University)
- Christina Gomez (California State University, Los Angeles)