Translation Studies

Projects

Image: "Unterwegs / On the Way" by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (2019, wall paint on concrete, Neukölln, Berlin). Part of a series of wall-writings created by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson in 2018 and 2019 in many public places in Berlin. The multilingual text reads in German: 'Immer noch unterwegs', in Yiddish: 'נאך אונטערוועגן', and in Arabic: 'مازلت في الطريق', which translates into English: 'still on the way'.

UW Translation Studies Hub

Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Translation Studies
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Interdisciplinary Translation Studies

Communication, Cultural Studies, International Relations, Language and Literature, Translation Studies
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Space, Movement, and Translation

16th Century, Digital Humanities, Immigration, Middle East, South Asia
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Affect & Audience in the Digital Age: Translational Poetics

Digital Humanities, Poetry, Translation Studies
Hebrew alphabet blocks

Hebrew and the Humanities

Identity and Culture, Jewish Studies, Translation Studies
Engraving from the Durán Codex of Hernán Cortés, a large boat, and the Indian Marina.

Troubling Translations

Humanities, Translation Studies
Image: "Unterwegs / On the Way" by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (2019, wall paint on concrete, Neukölln, Berlin). Part of a series of wall-writings created by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson in 2018 and 2019 in many public places in Berlin. The multilingual text reads in German: 'Immer noch unterwegs', in Yiddish: 'נאך אונטערוועגן', and in Arabic: 'مازلت في الطريق', which translates into English: 'still on the way'.

UW Translation Studies Hub

Pedagogy, Translation Studies, Undergraduate Education
Image: "Unterwegs / On the Way" by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (2019, wall paint on concrete, Neukölln, Berlin). Part of a series of wall-writings created by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson in 2018 and 2019 in many public places in Berlin. The multilingual text reads in German: 'Immer noch unterwegs', in Yiddish: 'נאך אונטערוועגן', and in Arabic: 'مازلت في الطريق', which translates into English: 'still on the way'.

Translation Studies Hub

Graduate Education, Pedagogy, Translation Studies, Undergraduate Education
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Translations of Migration

Global South, Globalization, History, Translation Studies

Articles

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A World in Translation

Translation Studies, Language and Literature
Aria Fani

Q&A with Professor Aria Fani

Pedagogy, Middle East, Translation Studies, Language and Literature, Persianate
Vicente L. Rafael

Vicente Rafael Publishes ‘Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation’

History, Postcolonialism, Translation Studies, Global South
Jason Groves and Jose Alaniz each hold their books while standing in a hallway in front of a sign for the Simpson Center.

Professors José Alaniz and Jason Groves on Russian Comics and “Weak” Translation

Translation Studies
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Professor Brian Baer Offers Online Talk for the Translation Studies Hub

Translation Studies
Professor Amelia Glaser standing outside the Simpson Center seminar room

UCSD Professor Amelia Glaser on Teaching Translation for a STEM Campus

Translation Studies
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Call for Applications: Grants Available to Design New Undergraduate Courses on Translation Studies

Translation Studies, Pedagogy, UW Faculty, Undergraduate Education
Participants of the workshop at work deciphering manuscripts in Smith Hall seminar room on July 6, 2022. Photo courtesy Sabeena Shaikh.

Braj and Beyond

Asian Languages & Literature, Translation Studies
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Call for Applications: Grants Available to Design Translation-Focused Modules for Existing Undergraduate Courses

Translation Studies, Pedagogy
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Call for Applications: Grants to Design Graduate-Level Courses in Translation Studies

Translation Studies
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Call for Applications: Grants Available to Design Translation-Focused Modules for Existing Undergraduate Courses - Due Nov. 20, 2023

Translation Studies

Katz Lectures

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Translation in Wartime

Cosmopolitanism, Translation Studies, Political Science

People

Denise Grollmus

Denise Grollmus (she/ella)

Denise Grollmus is a writer, scholar, teacher, web designer, and translator who was the Simpson Center's Communications Manager from 2018-2020. 

Affect Studies, Community Colleges, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Race, Religion, Translation Studies, Visual Culture
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Rich Watts (he/him/his)

Richard Watts is associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies, affiliate faculty in Comparative History of Ideas, faculty director of Canadian Studies, and co-director of the

20th Century, Environment, Environmental Humanities, French & Italian Studies, Postcolonialism, Translation Studies
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Caitlin Palo

As Program and Events Manager, Caitlin Palo works with faculty to coordinate the material and logistical needs for bringing together scholars from on and off-campus.

18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Communication, Literary Studies, Translation Studies, Writing Studies
Portrait of Jason Groves

Jason Groves (he/him/his)

My teaching and research seeks to address this, our current ecological state of affairs, through multiple lines of inquiry. In particular I have found that a remarkable group of 19th and 20th century German thinkers and writers, who through their literary writings sought to open up the imagination to a geological time scale, might help us to better understand our place in life on Earth and our unique human response-ability for the planet.
19th Century, 20th Century, Anthropocene, German Studies, Performance Studies, Translation Studies
Jang Wook Huh stands outside in front of a building wearing a blue shirt.

Jang Wook Huh (he/him/his)

Professor Jang Wook Huh specializes in ethnic American and comparative literatures, with an emphasis on modern cross-cultural exchanges in transpacific circuits. He is currently working on a book that examines the literary and cultural connections between black liberation struggles in the U.S.

Asian American, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Race, Translation Studies, Visual Culture
Portrait of Brian Reed

Brian Reed (he/him/his)

I am the Divisional Dean of Humanities and the Milliman Endowed Chair of Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Humanities, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Poetry, Translation Studies
profile of Maya Smith smiling at the camera, hair pulled back with some curls along the left side, wearing a red top under a blue blazer with a necklace

Maya Angela Eipe Smith (she/her/hers)

Smith is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington.

21st Century, Art, Black Studies, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Digital Humanities, French & Italian Studies, History, Linguistics, Translation Studies
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Heekyoung Cho (she/her/hers)

Heekyoung Cho is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow. 

East Asia, Postcolonialism, Textual Studies, Translation Studies
Aria Fani looks into the camera while wearing glasses and a grey collared shirt.

Aria Fani (he/him/his)

Aria's research and teaching focus on modern Persian literature and translation studies.

20th Century, Persianate, Translation Studies
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Aaron Carpenter (he/him/his)

After earning his BA in German at Boise State University, Aaron went on to teach English in China and Austria. In 2013, he obtained his MA in Technical Communication before working as a technical writer at Hewlett-Packard. He currently teaches German at the University of Washington.

German Studies, Translation Studies