English's Joshua Byron Smith begins work on critical NEH Scholarly Translation Grant

University of Arkansas News

Last fall, Joshua Byron Smith, an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas' Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a prestigious $200,000 Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Now this fall, the project, "Brut y Brenhinedd: Translating the Welsh Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth," has started and aims to make these crucial medieval Welsh texts accessible to a broader academic and general audience.

"This work will significantly contribute to the fields of medieval studies, Welsh literature, and British history," said Trish Starks, director of the U of A's Arkansas Humanities Center. "It's an impressive and critical project that will help make foundational humanities texts more accessible and available to scholars worldwide."

The NEH's Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant provides funding to support collaborative teams in editing, annotating, and translating texts that are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations.

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