UW Translation Studies Hub

And, for a very early preview of coming attractions: Tiffany Tsao, translator from Indonesian, will be our third annual literary translator in residence at the Translation Studies Hub next year! Following Anton Hur (translator from Korean, 2024) and Sawad Hussain (translator from Arabic, 2025), Tiffany Tsao will spend several days, April 13-17, 2026, packed with talks and workshops on various aspects of literary translation at Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW and at organized with or at other places in town, including with our friends and partners (NOTIS’s Northwest Literary Translators, Folio, Seattle Central College, Third Place Books, and maybe somewhere else, who knows!). With huge gratitude to Lee Scheingold, whose generous gift has made this annual program possible.

I’ve now read two of the books Tiffany Tsao translated, and also one of the novels she authored — it’s a great body of work to explore, and so much more is in the pipeline with planned publication next year and beyond. Check it out (work under contract or in progress is not yet listed on her website, and there’s a lot of it): https://tiffanytsao.com

Please join us next week by a public talk by Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) at the University of Washington, on Freud and translation. Seidman is a very exciting speaker, and an author of an earlier book in translation studies ("Faithful Renderings," 2006) as well as translator, with Chana Kronfeld, of "First Day and Other Stories" by Dvora Baron (2001). All details and rsvp here; free and open to the public: https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-19-translating-freud-psychoanalysis-naomi-seidman/

Excellent news: one of our co-leads, Prof. Aria Fani, has set up a fellowship for an emerging translator from Persian through American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)—a collaboration between ALTA and UW Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures department’s Mo Habib Translation Prize. Open to all regardless of institutional affiliation!

https://melc.washington.edu/news/2024/07/16/alta-offer-translator-persian-literature-prestigious-fellowship

Call for Applications: Grants Available to Design New Undergraduate Courses on Translation Studies at the University of Washington

Three faculty members will receive a $1000 research fund to work on their syllabus during the 2022-2023 Academic Year.

Deadline: September 1, 2022 by 11:59 pm.

Call for Applications: Grants Available to Design New Undergraduate Courses on Translation Studies | Simpson Center for the Humanities May 23, 2022 This call enthusiastically encourages all colleagues in the humanities and humanistic social sciences interested in designing a thematically focused course on translation to send us a 500-750 word syllabus abstract by July 1, 2022. Summary With the objective of making translation studie...

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Graduate Student Profile: Anna Learn Anna Learn is a first-year student in the Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. Her focus is on contemporary Persian, Spanish, and Urdu Literature. When and how did your interest in translation begin? Do you have a focus? I began to be inter...

We are thrilled to say that the UW Translation Studies Hub has been renewed for another year by Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW!

In 2022-23, the Hub will be led by University of Washington faculty Nancy Bou Ayash, Aria Fani, and Sasha Senderovich.

Click to read the full announcement: https://uwtranslationhub.wixsite.com/uwtranslation/post/uw-translation-studies-hub-renewed-for-2022-23?fbclid=IwAR0BJh2wUdqdv5u5stHVO9ADj_U1CcL0plID8abJesglIijbJfimDTqyM7w

UW Translation Studies Hub Renewed for 2022-23! We are thrilled to announce that the UW Translation Studies Hub has been renewed for the 2022-23 academic year by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. The Hub will be led by UW faculty Nancy Bou Ayash (English), Aria Fani (Near Eastern Languages & Civilization) and Sasha Senderovich (Slavic Langua...

On April 22, students in the University of Washington graduate seminar were treated to a conversation with literary translators and writers Jennifer Croft and Boris Dralyuk. What an inspiring visit!

A big thank you to Jennifer Croft and Boris Dralyuk for an illuminating discussion on April 22 about their work as translators and writers, moderated by Prof. Michael Biggins!

New blog post on Zakiya Hanafi's April 8 workshop on applying design-thinking approaches to translation!

“Let’s Glocalize!” A Design-Thinking Approach to the Teaching and Practice of Localization On April 8, 2022, the UW Translation Studies Hub welcomed Zakiya Hanafi for a workshop on globalization, localization, and design-thinking approaches to translation. Hanafi teaches in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, is the current Vice President...