Who is the translator and researcher who served as a dean at Hartford Junior College and translated her Belgian-French partner's 1968 work into English?
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The Abyss (Yourcenar novel) The Abyss (French: L'Œuvre au noir ) is a 1968 novel by the Belgian-French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Its narrative centers on the life and death of Zeno, a physician, philosopher, scientist and alchemist born in Bruges during the Renaissance era. The book was published in France in 1968 and was met with immediate popular interest as well as critical acclaim, obtaining the Prix Femina with unanimous votes the year of its publication. The English translation by Grace Frick has been published under the title "The Abyss" or alternatively Zeno of Bruges. Belgian filmmaker André Delvaux adapted it into a film in 1988.
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Grace Frick Grace Marion Frick (January 12, 1903 – November 18, 1979) was a translator and researcher for her lifelong partner French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Grace Frick taught languages at US colleges and was the second academic dean to be appointed to Hartford Junior College.
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Pierre L. van den Berghe Pierre L. van den Berghe (born 1933) is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at the University of Washington, where he has worked since 1965. Born in the Belgian Congo to Belgian parents, and spending World War II in occupied Belgium, he was an early witness to ethnic conflict and racism, which eventually led him to become a leading authority on ethnic relations. He has conducted field work in South Africa, Mexico, Guatemala, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Peru, and Israel. Early in his career, he lectured at the University of Natal alongside Leo Kuper and Fatima Meer. A student of Talcott Parsons at Harvard (receiving the Ph.D. in 1960), he nevertheless had little interest in structural functionalism and was one of the first proponents of sociobiological approaches to social phenomena.
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Edwin Grant Dexter Edwin Grant Dexter (born 1868, date of death unknown) was an American educator, born at Calais, Me. He graduated in 1891 from Brown University, where he taught for a year and then (between 1892 and 1899) was science master of Colorado Springs High School, director of the Coloradp Springs Summer School of Science, Philosophy, and Languages, and professor of psychology in the Normal School at Greeley, Colo. In 1899 he gained a Ph.D. at Columbia University and the higher diploma of Teachers College. From then until 1907 he served at the University of Illinois in various capacities — as professor of pedagogy and psychology, director of the summer term, director of the School of Education, and dean. He became commissioner of education in Porto Rico and chancellor of the University of Porto Rico in 1907. He was president of the National Society for the Scientific Study of Education in 1905-06 and president of the child-study section of the National Education Association in 1905-07. Besides serving as associate editor of the "Internationales Archivar für Schulhygiene" and of the "Jahrschrift für Körpeliche Erziehung" and contributing some 50 articles to scientific and educational journals, he was author of:
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Jean Graham Jean E. Graham, Ph.D. is an American scholar, translator, and Associate Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, where she has taught since 1994. Dr. Graham also served lunch in Eickhoff Hall. She regularly taught courses in British literature (especially Milton and Metaphysical Poetry), young adult literature, and Anglo-American African women writers. Her research interests were varied: topics of recent publications and current projects include John Bunyan, Star Trek, Amy Tan, and C. S. Lewis’s Narnian chronicles.
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Nathaniel Gage Nathaniel Lees Gage (August 1, 1917 – August 17, 2008) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to a scientific understanding of teaching. He conceived and edited the first "Handbook of Research on Teaching" (Gage, 1963), led the Stanford Center for Research and Development of Teaching, and served as president of the American Educational Research Association. Gage was a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he moved in 1962 after 14 years at the University of Illinois. Deborah Stipek, dean of the Stanford School of Education, called Gage a "giant among educational researchers."
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Marie-Françoise Guédon Marie-Françoise Guédon, Ph.D., is a Canadian anthropologist and professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. She has done fieldwork among the Inuit, Gitksan, Ahtna, and Tanana peoples of Canada and Alaska.
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Christine Mohrmann Christine Mohrmann (Groningen, 1 August 1903 – Nijmegen, 13 July 1988) was a specialist in early Christian Greek and Latin, vulgar and medieval Latin and honorary professor at Amsterdam University and at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now Radboud University) where most of her teaching and research was conducted. Early researches involved her with amongst other writers Augustine, Cyprian and particularly Tertullian. She wrote mainly in Dutch, English and French and was particularly known in the English-speaking world for her studies on St Patrick's Latin and for establishing the journal "Vigiliae Christianae" (1947).
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Mark Silk Mark Silk is a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), where he directs the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and serves as editor of "Religion in the News." He was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1950 and graduated from Harvard College in 1972. In 1982 he earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard. He was editor of the "Boston Review" from 1985 to 1986, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist for the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
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Therese Benedek Therese Benedek (November 8, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst, researcher, and educator. Active in Germany and the United States between the years 1921 and 1977, she was regarded for her work on psychosomatic medicine, women's psychosexual development, sexual dysfunction, and family relationships. She was a faculty and staff member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1936 to 1969.
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Terry Fulmer Terry Fulmer, Ph.D, RN, FAAN is the current President of the John A. Hartford Foundation. Prior to this, she was the distinguished professor & dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She is known for her extensive research in geriatrics and elder abuse. She has received funding from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Nursing Research for her research regarding elder abuse. In addition to being the active dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Fulmer has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and adjunct professor at the New York University School of Medicine.
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Deanna Hammond Deanna L. Hammond (1942–1997) was a Canadian-American translator and linguist. She led the Linguistic Services section of the US Library of Congress. During the 1990s, she taught Spanish translation at George Mason University and at American University. She was president of the American Translators Association from 1989 to 1991. In 1992, she received the association's highest award, the Alexander Gode medal. She headed the US delegation to the Statutory Congress of the International Translation Federation in 1990. She was president of the Interlingua Institute from 1993 until her death.
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Francoise Lionnet Françoise Lionnet is a professor at UCLA in Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Gender Studies, as well as the current director of the African Studies Center and Program Co-Director of UCLA's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities: Cultures in Transnational Perspective. She is a leading scholar in Francophone and comparative literary studies, and has published groundbreaking work in the fields of feminist literature, postcolonial studies, autobiography, and African, African-American, Caribbean and Mascarene Island studies. She is the former president of the ACLA.
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Madeleine Delbrêl Madeleine Delbrêl (1904–1964) was a French Catholic author, poet, and mystic, whose works include "The Marxist City as Mission Territory" (1957), "The Contemporary Forms of Atheism" (1962), and the posthumous publications "We, the Ordinary People of the Streets" (1966) and "The Joy of Believing" (1968). She came to the Catholic faith after a youth spent as a strict atheist. She has been cited by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray as an example for young people to follow in "the arduous battle of holiness." Madeleine died unexpectedly from a brain hemorrhage in 1964.
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Jeannette Howard Foster Jeannette Howard Foster (November 3, 1895 – July 26, 1981) was an American librarian, professor, poet, and researcher in the field of lesbian literature. She pioneered the study of popular fiction and ephemera in order to excavate both overt and covert lesbian themes. Her years of pioneering data collection culminated in her 1956 study "Sex Variant Women in Literature", which has become a seminal resource in LGBT studies. Initially self-published by Foster via Vantage Press, it was photoduplicated and reissued in 1975 by Diana Press and reissued in 1985 by Naiad Press with updating additions and commentary by Barbara Grier.
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Issa J. Boullata Issa J. Boullata (Arabic: عيسى بُلاطه) is a Palestinian scholar, writer, and translator of Arabic literature. He was born in Jerusalem on February 25, 1929 during the British Mandate of Palestine. He obtained a First Class BA (Honours) in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1964 followed by a PhD in Arabic literature in 1969, both from the University of London. He taught Arabic studies for seven years at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, before moving to McGill University, Montreal, in 1975. He taught graduate courses in Arabic Literature, Modern Arab Thought, and Qur'anic Studies at McGill's Institute of Islamic Studies until his retirement in 2004, and the honorific title of Emeritus Professor was conferred upon him on September 1, 2009. In his academic career in Hartford and Montreal, he was the supervisor of ten graduate students who wrote their PhD dissertations under his advice as well as thirty-eight who likewise wrote their MA theses——and some of these graduate students' works were later published. He currently lives in Montreal.
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Xu Yuanchong Xu Yuanchong (; born April 18, 1921 in Jiangxi, China) is a translator, best known for translating Chinese ancient poems into English and French. Xu took foreign language studies at Tsinghua University after he studied abroad. And after that, he became a professor in English and French. Since 1983 to now, he is professor at Peking University
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Mary C. Boys Mary C. Boys (born November 4, 1947), is the Dean of Academic Affairs and Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She was formerly Professor of Religious Education at Boston College, where she served for 17 years.
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Gabriel Moran Gabriel Moran (born 11 August 1935) is an American scholar and teacher in the fields of Christian theology and religious education. His writings made significant contributions to the development of Catholic theology in the years following the Second Vatican Council. His writings have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. He holds the title of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences at New York University, where he also serves as the co-director of the Philosophy of Education Program.
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Thomas H. O'Connor Dr. Thomas H. O'Connor (1923-2012) was a professor and university historian of Boston College who published hundreds of books and academic papers on Boston, New England, and American history. O'Connor was known as "the dean of Boston historians".
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Louis Renner Louis Lawrence Renner, S.J., (April 25, 1926 – March 24, 2015) was an American Jesuit priest, historian, writer and academic. Renner, a professor of German who founded the Latin language program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, specialized in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Alaska. He authored several volumes and books on Alaska's Catholic history, including the extensive "Alaskana Catholica," which was published in 2005.
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Douglas Robinson (academic) Douglas Robinson (born September 30, 1954) is an American academic scholar, translator, and fiction-writer who is best known for his work in translation studies, but has published widely on various aspects of human communication and social interaction (American literature, literary theory, linguistic theory, gender theory, writing theory, rhetorical theory). He has translated several Finnish novels, plays, and monographs into English, and his own novel was written in English but first published in Finnish translation.