DEALL faculty member Patricia Sieber was one of this year’s winners of the 2023 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. The Ratner Awards recognize faculty who demonstrate creative teaching and extraordinary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students. Each Ratner Award winner receives a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a $15,000 teaching account to fund future projects. Patricia Sieber will use her Ratner Award to create a graduate version of the Translation & Interpretation certificate with multiple exciting components: the expansion of a Chinese Theatre Collaborative; a Translation Summer School; recruiting a professional interpreter for the course “Intro to Community Interpreting”; and the creation of a translator-in-residence workshop. In her project submission, Sieber underlined how she teaches arts and literature as “a gateway to a time and a place, a gateway to thorny questions of individual aspirations, social norms, and collective memory, and as a gateway to students’ self-growth.”