In this episode of Going Public, Professor Richard Watts (French & Italian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle) explores the role of failure in publicly engaged scholarship and teaching, the imperatives of departmental transformation, and, of course, translation as a public practice.

Episode Transcript, Sample Syllabi, and the Going Public Archive:

• https://simpsoncenter.org/podcasts/ep-9-richard-watts-activating-risk-failure

View Watt's Seminar and Syllabus for "Translation and its Publics":

• https://simpsoncenter.org/reimagining-phd-seminar/translation-and-its-publics