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Bonus: Mark Harman on retitling Kafka
What happens when a title becomes too familiar?
Sep 15
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Camellia Pham
1
4:27
Mark Harman on Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories
Mark Harman returns to Kafka with Selected Stories (Harvard University Press, 2024), a collection that combines courtroom logic with surrealist…
Sep 2
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Camellia Pham
17:33
August 2025
Special Episode 3: The Doctoral Program
During the 2024-25 academic year, the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard celebrated its departmental anniversary—and Paraphrasis is…
Aug 28
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Camellia Pham
32:33
Bonus: Adam Mahler on the poet’s names
What’s in a name?
Aug 18
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Camellia Pham
3:44
Adam Mahler on Shem Tov Ardutiel’s Moral Proverbs and Other Old Castilian Poems of Jewish Authorship
In this episode, Adam Mahler discusses his translation of Shem Tov Ardutiel’s Moral Proverbs and Other Old Castilian Poems of Jewish Authorship…
Aug 4
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Anna Hennigan
17:07
July 2025
Special Episode 2: The Undergraduate Program
During the 2024-25 academic year, the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard celebrated its departmental anniversary—and Paraphrasis is…
Jul 29
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Jess Jensen Mitchell
30:02
Bonus: Miriam Udel on rhyme schemes and the bath squad
What’s it like to tame an unruly stanza?
Jul 14
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Camellia Pham
4:33
Miriam Udel on Honey on the Page
In this episode, Anna speaks with Miriam Udel about Honey on the Page (NYU Press), her 2021 anthology of Yiddish children’s literature from the 20th…
Jul 7
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Camellia Pham
20:01
June 2025
Special Episode 1: Translation Studies
During the 2024-25 academic year, the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard celebrated its departmental anniversary—and Paraphrasis is…
Jun 30
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Lara Norgaard
3
27:35
Bonus: Anton Hur on gerunds, tech bros, and “our utopia”
What is a title?
Jun 16
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Camellia Pham
1
3:58
Anton Hur on Your Utopia by Bora Chung
In this episode, translator and debut novelist Anton Hur discusses his English translation of Your Utopia (Algonquin Books, 2024), a fantastical and…
Jun 2
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Camellia Pham
2
17:09
May 2025
Bonus: Damion Searls on titles and verbs
Why do German nouns seem to bristle with energy while English ones feel flat?
May 18
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Camellia Pham
5:06
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