Professor Yann Robert and Recent Book Featured in Stories atLAS!
Introduction
Professor Yann Robert, Head of French and Francophone Studies, was featured in Stories atLAS! Prof. Robert recently published The Last Judgment of Kings, a critical edition and translation completed in collaboration with UIC students.
This critical edition is highly unusual, in that it was completed as a collaboration involving twenty-seven undergraduate and graduate students over the course of five years and three separate classes here at UIC. The first class (in 2018) served as translators; the second (in 2021) as researchers; and the third (2022) as editors. Each task turned out to have its own unique pedagogical benefit. Translating short sections engaged students in a different relationship to the text, encouraging them to focus less on plot and more on style, register, and diction, and improving their analysis of the play as a whole.