Women’s College to Offer a New Master’s Degree Program in Translation

Mills College, the private liberal arts educational institution for women in Oakland, California, has announced that is offering a new “low-residency” master of fine arts degree in translation. The graduate degree program is open to both men and women.

Students in the translation degree program will receive a strong academic foundation in literary translation coupled with training in practical translation — a combination that will prepare students to take advantage of the market demand for translators worldwide. The five-semester program will offer two seven-day residential periods throughout the year, one in winter and one in summer. But most coursework will be completed online.

The program will be directed by Professor Carlota Caulfield, head of the Spanish and Spanish American Studies Program at Mills. Professor Caulfield joined the Mills College faculty in 1992. She is the author of 11 books of poetry and co-editor of Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power (University of Wales Press, 2014). Dr. Caulfield is a graduate of the University of Havana. She earned a master’s degree in Spanish from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Tulane University in New Orleans.