Katherine Churchill

Aug 27, 2024 | historynewsnetwork.org | Katherine Churchill

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, an adaptation of the legend of Troy by Burgundian writer Raoul Lefèvre. Not knowing at all what he was doing, he “ran forward like a blind horse” with the translation. His “simpleness and underfitness” in both English and French left him panicking.

Nov 15, 2023 | lithub.com | Katherine Churchill

This spring, I fell in love with John Gower, who died in 1408. For months I’d been reading his poems in their modern print editions with a scholarly disinterest. Then at the Huntington Library one morning, my stomach fluttered when I opened the cover of a fourteenth-century manuscript of his most famous work, Confessio Amantis, to a blurry illumination of a dreaming Gower, asleep.

Jul 12, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Geraldo L. Cadava |Tasha Sandoval |Katherine Churchill |Megan Cummins

Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. In this episode, Geraldo Cadava and Tasha Sandoval talk with Raquel Gutiérrez about their critically acclaimed book, Brown Neon: Essays, published by Coffee House Press.