Monthly Archives: December 2021

CfP: Unending Translation: Creative Critical Experiments in Translation and Life Writing

By | December 17, 2021

Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2022 Organization: Delphine Grass/Lancaster University, Lily Robert-Foley / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier contact email: lily.robert-foley@univ-montp3.fr The aim of this collected edition is to explore different approaches to translation criticism through the medium of life writing. Traditionally assigned to the paratextual, the translator’s point of view rarely occupies the narrative centre of creative writing and essays. In… Read More »

Call for Papers: Translators’ [In]visibilities

By | December 17, 2021

25-26 February 2022, University of Calgary This call for papers is for a two-day workshop on the theme Translators’ [In]visibilities focussing on the idea of ‘invisibility’ from multiple perspectives. Informed by scholarship in translation studies, in particular the work of Lawrence Venuti, especially The Translator’s Invisibility (3rd edition; Routledge 2018), we want to explore the ideas of visibility and invisibility… Read More »

CFP- Special Issue: Literary Multilingualism Studies: The Future of the Field

By | December 6, 2021

Full name / Name of organisation: Journal of Literary Multilingualism Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2022 Contact email: j.taylor-batty@leedstrinity.ac.uk Literary multilingualism studies is a relatively new but burgeoning area of research. With the impact of translation studies, the ‘transnational turn’ within literary studies, and the growing relevance of the ‘postmonolingual condition’ in the contemporary world, multilingual and translingual writing practices –… Read More »