This'll Take A While

Professor John Bennion visits This'll Take A While with tales of one of BYU English's most stunning study abroad program. Join John and his students as they visit the shrines and follow in the footsteps of some of Britain's greatest literary luminaries.

Chip Oscarson, director of BYU's Scandinavian program, joins Dean for a geographical, historical, climatological and spiritual overview of the lands from which so many of you listeners originated.

Scott Miller is the dean of BYU's College of Humanities. He is also a distinguished scholar and ardent lover of things Japanese. In this program we find Dean trying to get him to pick a lane.

BYU English department chair Phil Snyder joins Dean to open up some of the whys and ways of examining your own life, and writing your own history.

Sharon Swenson visits the program with a lyrical, luminous reminiscence of her upbringing in Cedar City, and environs.  She also measures the after-ripples, and their continuing undulation.

Spanish scholar Dale Pratt joins Dean for a celebration of Miguel de Cervantes' incalculably important, inexhaustibly enjoyable literary milestone.

Central Utah documentarians Jared and Carly Jakins visit to discuss how anthropological decorum can productively direct non-fiction's sometimes impulsiveness.

New Media scholar Quint Randle lays out some of the enormous implications of the last few years' worth of change in the worlds of technology and communication.

Mexico is more important and amazing than you thought it was!

Dean is joined by Brian Price, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at BYU, who shares some of his multitudinous expertise about and love for the incalculable land of Mexico.

Description + Interpretation = Translation

Dean welcomes translation scholar Sergio Waisman from George Washington U’s department of Spanish. The work of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges helps him to demonstrate that translation can aspire for more than just dutiful equivalency.