Jane Barker and the Politics of Catholic Celibacy
Jane Barker's amatory novel, Love Intrigues (1713), presents a snapshot of English Jacobite Catholic culture at James II's exiled Court in St. Germain-en-Laye. As evidenced in her Galesia Trilogy and poetry, Barker's narratives promote Catholic monasticism and its advantages for English women such as retreat, education, and the preservation of a feminist history. That the 1719 edition of Love Intrigues minimizes these overt Catholic emphases suggests that Barker's representation of Royalist Catholic solidarity in the first edition was too controversial later, due to recent and imminent Jacobite activity in England.
Montagu's Letters from the Levant:
As many critics have pointed out, Montagu's gender and class position gave her a certain author- ity to interrogate Western assumptions about the Levant in her Letters from the Levant (1716- 18). Scholars, however, have overlooked her nuanced examination of Ottoman-European rela- tions in part because she addresses European policies through an analysis of how they have permeated Europeans' behavioral traits, attire, and social conventions rather than through a conventional or theoretical analysis of the policies themselves. Just as European countries were gaining territory and expanding their influence across the globe, they were also creating more nation-based divisions within European identity and, to Montagu's disgust, signaling these boundaries more zealously the closer they were to Europe's intercontinental border with Asia. As an aristocratic woman, she is expected to comply with these practices. Because she refuses to do so, Montagu challenges a world order that seeks to carve the world up into European-controlled ter- ritories. She understands the cultural demarcations that prescribe certain behaviors but chooses a "proteophobic" stance, or one that resists the "spirit of faction" that develops among colonizers in foreign lands and is exploited to construct borders in these territories. Yet when she circles back to Europe, her travels to Africa expose Montagu as unthinkingly imbibing racialized portrayals of Africans that reinscribe the boundary between Europeans and Africans, perpetuating the very ideological "border form" that she so often critiques.
MT and the Swiss language service providers: an analysis and training perspective
Switzerland is perceived as a highly multilingual country, with four national languages and a solid translation tradition in official, administrative and corporate settings, now even extended to include English. A research case study was set up to investigate the understanding and use of translation and language technologies by Swiss language service providers. This paper highlights some findings, particularly focusing upon the issue of translation automation processes in multilingual documentation production, with a view not only to spot preconceptions or knowledge gaps about MT, but also to 
suggest some training principles. We will argue that training activities ought to present MT systems as 
key aiding components of translator workbenches and, their output, as a valid linguistic resource for further human refining, if necessary. Moreover, in line with the idea that MT can be part and parcel of multilingual content production cycles, we will look at the interaction of MT with controlled language, CAT tools and terminology work. In sum, we will make explicit the usefulness of MT against the 
widespread prejudice that investing in MT does not return any benefits given the ‘low and hilarious quality of its output’, as quoted by most of the interviewees of our case study.