The Translation Studies Initiative at Rutgers fosters intellectual and creative exchange among students and faculty engaged in making, analyzing, and conceptualizing translation across the Humanities at Rutgers University. The initiative serves as a dynamic and collaborative home for the diverse interdisciplinary work happening across campus and hosts new and cutting-edge dialogues, projects, and conversations about, in, and on translation.
The Translation Studies Initiative at Rutgers fosters intellectual and creative exchange among students and faculty engaged in making, analyzing, and conceptualizing translation across the Humanities at Rutgers University. The initiative serves as a dynamic and collaborative home for the diverse interdisciplinary work happening across campus and hosts new and cutting-edge dialogues, projects, and conversations about, in, and on translation.
In 2024, we launched our new Graduate Certificate in Critical Translation for doctoral students who work in the history, theory, and practice of literary translation; with translation as critical and scholarly practice; and in translation as critical practice; or who work in translation activism, language justice, and community engagement. This tripartite platform offers our graduate students a solid and varied training in Translation Studies as a critical lens in literary and cultural studies, a millennia-old art form, and a fulcrum and tool for urgent new forms of engagement with communities in and beyond the academy. For more, please visit us here.
Now in 2025, we’re excited to launch a new Minor in Translation Studies for our Rutgers undergraduates. This 18 credit interdisciplinary minor brings together the internationally recognized research and training in Translation Studies that our diverse faculty offers for the benefit of our undergraduates from across majors. For more, please visit us here.
In 2024-25, we will offer long-standing and new undergraduate and graduate courses on translation; language and literature departments across the Humanities will welcome speakers and practitioners to talk about the craft of translation and the profession; and our faculty and graduate students will present their current work on and in translation here at home and around the globe. Among other translation events, we look forward to celebrating our 7th Annual Translate-a-Thon on 28 March 2025.
Please take a moment to look around the site for more information about our classes, projects, and upcoming events. Feel free to reach out to Karen Bishop at
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