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Looking for Assistant Professor of French!

The Department of Foreign Languages at Western Michigan University seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor of French beginning August 2008, pending budgetary approval. Ph.D. in French or evidence of imminent award required. Specialization in translation preferred. Candidates in literary, cultural, or linguistics studies are also invited to apply; training in translation theory is required. Applicants should possess native or near-native fluency in French and have a genuine commitment to teaching at all undergraduate levels. Teaching experience at the college level required, publications desirable. Responsibilities to include French language and culture courses along with courses in area of specialty. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has placed WMU among the 76 public institutions in the nation designated as research universities with high research activity. WMU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer consistent with applicable federal and State law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Review of applications will begin February 29th, 2008 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should visit http://www.wmich.edu/hr/careers-at-wmu.htm to apply. Online applications should include a letter of application (including a description of the candidate’s research and teaching philosophy) and vita. Transcripts and three letters of reference can be sent directly to Dr. Cynthia Running-Johnson, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338. Fax: (269) 387-6333; e-mail: c.running-johnson@wmich.edu.

Call for manuscripts!

The editors of Translation Review are expanding the scope of the journal.

We are now accepting translations of original works accompanied by a substantive comment by the translator. Comments should focus on the reconstruction of the translation process with specific reference to choices made by the translator in the preparation of the final draft. We are particularly interested in discussions of how translators succeeded in finding solutions to problems involving no direct correspondences between cultures.

We will consider manuscripts that deal with poetry, short fiction, essays, and excerpts from plays.

Please send a hard copy of the manuscript together with the work on disk in MS Word format. If you have any questions about the nature of this expansion, please contact Rainer Schulte, Editor.

Looking for reviewers!

The editors of Translation Review would like to expand the section on reviews of translations, and we are actively seeking reviewers of individual book translations. In addition, we would like to feature columns surveying the major book translations that have been published in a particular year from a particular language.

Reviews of translations from lesser-known languages are of particular interest. Any suggestions should be forwarded to the editor.

Submissions for the customary articles or interviews are also welcomed and accepted in MS Word format, on disk. Submissions may be sent to:

Editor, Translation Review
c/o University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688, JO 51
Richardson, TX 75083-0688

The Donald Keene Center annually awards $6,000 in Japan-U.S.
Friendship Commission Prizes
for the Translation of Japanese Literature. A prize is given for the best translation of a modern work or a classical work, or the prize is divided between equally distinguished translations.

Shiwei Ye
Prizes & Programs Coordinator
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
Columbia University
sy2234@columbia.edu
212-854-5036

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It is now possible for visiting graduate students to spend a semester or a year in Jerusalem at Hebrew University and take home MA credits in Creative Writing, Literary Translation, and English and American literature, for courses taught in English. Graduate courses in Middle East/Israeli/religious/language and other studies offered by the Rothberg International School - taught in English - are available too. The attached pdf file offers a concise summary of the possibilities and directs students to the Rothberg web site for more information. http://overseas.huji.ac.il Depending on where they live, students may contact a local RIS office:

United States
E-mail: hebrewu@hebrewu.com
Office of Academic Affairs
One Battery Park Plaza, 25th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Tel: 1-800-404-8622 or 212-607-8520
Fax: 212-809-4183

Click here for more information: Creative Writing Unit

DEADLINE: January 31th
Found in Translation Award

The Polish Book Institute, Polish Cultural Institute in London, Polish Cultural Institute in New York and W.A.B. Publishing House in Warsaw announce the FOUND IN TRANSLATION Award.

The FOUND IN TRANSLATION Award is to be given annually to the translator or translators of the best translation of a work of Polish literature into English that was published as a book in the preceding calendar year.

The Award consists of a three-month residency in Krakow, with lodging, a stipend in the amount of 2,000 PLN monthly, an airline ticket to and from Krakow funded by the Polish Book Institute, and a financial award of 10,000 PLN funded by the W.A.B. Publishing House.

The Award is given by a Selection Committee consisting of representatives of the Polish Book Institute, Polish Cultural Institute in London, and Polish Cultural Institute in New York. The Director of the Polish Book Institute is to be President of the Selection Committee.

The name of the laureate is to be announced during the award ceremony, which will be organized each year in the laureate’s country of origin, preferably during the International Book Fair in that country.

Candidates for the Award can be nominated by private persons as well institutions in Poland and abroad.

Nominations are to be sent to the Polish Book Institute, 31-011 Kraków ul. Szczepanska 1, Poland, e-mail biuro@instytutksiazki.pl with the subject-heading FOUND IN TRANSLATION.

The nomination is to include the book title, name of the author, name of the translator, publisher, and a statement of the reasons for the nomination. The deadline for sending nominations is January 31 of each year, by midnight.

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Seeking literature that captures Argentina’s diverse literary and geographic landscapes

Jill Gibian, Ph.D.Modern Languages
Eastern Oregon University
One University Boulevard
La Grande, OR 97850

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Michigan Quarterly Review, the flagship scholarly and literary journal of the University of Michigan, will be publishing a special issue devoted to China in the Spring of 2008. The issue will contain writings about the territory of China but also seeks work that describe or dramatize the presence of China in the imagination and behaviors of other countries, especially the United States. MQR is sending out a call for essays, memoirs, interviews, fiction, and poetry.

In past years MQR has published special issues on a variety of topics, such as The Middle East (guest editor, Anton Shammas), Cuba (guest editor, Ruth Behar), the Soviet Union / Russia (guest editors, Jane Burbank and William Rosenberg), and Vietnam (guest editors, Rebekah Linh Collins and Barbara Tran).

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Call for manuscripts. Hayden’s Ferry Review is looking for translations that pay close attention to cultural bodies, the way they identify themselves, interact, and maintain their distinctions. HFR’s international section wishes to explore these living arrangements as perceived by the inhabitant writer. Our intention is to provide a venue for writers who’ve not been recognized by the dominant literary communities; workers outside of tradition, or so deep in tradition that what they do no longer fits the literary mold. Please send poetry, short fiction, or essays to hfrinternationaleditor@gmail.com.

Poetry is published on facing pages with the original language; the original prose texts are published on our website. Please send the original language text as a PDF document along with your translation.

Additionally, submissions should include a translator's note, 250-500 words, providing relevant information about the translated work—the author, cultural context, or the process of translation itself.

Payment is $25.00 per page/maximum of $100.00, two copies of the magazine, and a one-year gift subscription to HFR.

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IMAGE: Art, Faith, Mystery
Image, a literary and arts quarterly founded in 1989, is a unique forum for the best writing and artwork that are informed by—or grapple with—religious faith. We have never been interested in art that merely regurgitates dogma or falls back on easy answers or didacticism. Instead, our focus has been on writing and visual artwork that embody a spiritual struggle, that seek to strike a balance between tradition and a profound openness to the world. Here the larger questions of existence intersect with what the poet Albert Goldbarth calls the "greasy doorknobs and salty tearducts" of our everyday lives.

Each issue explores this relationship through outstanding fiction, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, music, interviews, and dance—including work in translation. Image also features four-color reproductions of visual art.

To subscribe or order a sample issue, visit our website. Include SASE with submission. No e-mail submissions. No previously published translations. Address submissions to:
Gregory Wolfe, editor
Image
3307 Third Avenue West
Seattle WA 98119
image@imagejournal.org (queries only; no e-mail submissions)
www.imagejournal.org

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ICORN Webzine (www.icorn.org)

The International Cities of Refuge Network has launched its new quarterly webzine.
ICORN’s work focuses on the importance of freedom of expression.

Our first webzine issue features the work of award-winning novelist Chenjerai Hove, and the renowned philosopher Etienné Balibar.
We are inviting writers to submit essays on the subjects of
1) nationalism, identity, “the exile experience”, patriotism and/or citizenship
2) cross-cultural literatures, translation, critical analysis of fiction and poetry with an eye on history or current events

We also welcome submissions of poetry, short stories or short creative non-fiction for our Babel Voice section; and interviews and dialogues for our In Dialogue section. We are especially interested in work we can publish in two languages and SOUND FILES of oral presentations.

Please note that we have an international focus, and that we receive a disproportionate number of poetry submissions.
See our Masthead for details and submission procedures. www.icorn.org
We are a not-for-profit organization and regret that we do not have funds to pay our contributors at this time. We hope that you will consider the electronic rights to your work as a donation for an important cause.

* We are also putting together our (volunteer) editorial teams at the moment. If you are a graduate student/MA or PhD and a published writer with a good, working knowledge of a foreign language and interested in gaining editorial experience while working for a very good cause, please take a good look at the website www.icorn.org send an email with a bio and your reasons for wanting to apply for the team to Ren: ren@icorn.org.

If you would like more information about ICORN, our history, our Advisory Board etc. Please don’t hesitate to contact icorn@icorn.org.

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Siglio is a new, independent publishing house in Los Angeles driven by a desire to produce highly captivating, original and beautifully made books that live at the interstices and intersections of art and literature. We are dedicated to bringing provocative work into the world that defies easy categorization, simple production, traditional paradigms and the constraints of any single medium. It intends to generate unique opportunities for artists and writers to collaborate and converse across media, cultures and languages, create new contexts for previously published work to appear without compromise, and foster new works in new forms.

Our emphasis is on prose/fiction/hybrid works that resist, subvert, ignore the more traditional paradigms. We are interested in work originating in any language, work of historical interest or work by contemporary authors that could be published within either of these series:

BOOKWORKS: book-length prose/fiction/hybrid works which have distinct typographical, visual or structural demands.

IS TO AS TO: shorter works (30-75 pages: novella, short story or prose poetry collections, medium-length hybrid works, etc.) to consider for our series of artist-writer juxtapositions, or artist-writer collaborations.

Please request submission guidelines and more specific information about our mission at info@sigliopress.com. Our first titles will appear in early 2008. www.sigliopress.com

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We are seeking first-time English translations of avant-garde poets. They need not be contemporary, but they need to have been ahead of their time whenever they lived. We like to feature 5-10 pages of the work of a single poet in every issue, and thus are sometimes able to provide a home for a sequence of poems, or a single poem too long for journal publication elsewhere. Our current issue features the Austrian-born German-language poet Friederike Mayrocher translated by Richard Dove. Our next issue will present eight poems by Gunter Eich in translations by Michael Hoffman.

Common Knowledge (formerly Oxford University Press, 1990-99, now Duke University Press) arose with the fall of the Berlin Wall in an effort to foster communication with and between Eastern European intellectuals. Now headquartered in Jerusalem, we have published of the finest writers and poets of the last century, including Lidija Dimkovska, Thom Gunn, Miroslav Holub, Yusef Komunyakaa, Samuel Menashe, Peter Nadas, Aleksander Vvedensky and Adam Zagajewski. An interdisciplinary journal, we are devoted to seeking peaceful means of resolving conflict, be it intellectual or political. Among our prose contributors have been Clare Cavanagh, Paul Feyerabend, Clifford Geertz, Hugh Kenner, Frank Kermode, Richard Rorty and Susan Sontag.

Submit via e-mail or post to the address(es) below:
Belle Randall
Poetry Editor
1202 N 42nd St.
Seattle, WA 98103
bellerandall@prosody.org
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MLA series Texts and Translations

The editorial board for the MLA series Texts and Translations welcomes prospectuses for new projects. Volumes in the series provide students and faculty members with important texts and high-quality translations that otherwise are not available. Works are usually published simultaneously in companion volumes in the original language and in English translation. To keep series publications affordable, the board limits the length of each text to approximately 150 double-spaced manuscript pages (38,000 words). The books in the series are aimed at students in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses -- in national literatures in languages other than English, comparative literature, literature in translation, ethnic studies, area studies, and women’s studies. The series guidelines are available on the MLA Web site (www.mla.org/pub_guidelines_tt).

Address inquiries and prospectuses to Joshua Shanholtzer, assistant acquisitions editor (jshanholtzer@mla.org).

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The Cafe Irreal: International Imagination
A quarterly web journal online since 1998; seeking translations of short shorts (stories under 2000 words) in the style of writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, and Jorge Luis Borges. In our seven years we have published translations of numerous authors, including Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Anna Maria Shua, Jiri Kratochvil, Emilio Martinez, and Faruk Ulay. We pay an honorarium of two cents a word (U.S.) for the translation and story. The translator is responsible for making all arrangements with the author. We accept only electronic submissions via e-mail. Please see our website for guidelines and details.

www.cafeirreal.com
editors@cafeirreal.com

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Hayden's Ferry Review
Features poetry, fiction, art, interviews (including translations). International section seeks cross-cultural projects, especially work from less represented communities; focused on writing but interested also in multi-textual, performance-based projects.

visit us:
www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/publications/haydensferryreview
contact us: hfr@asu.edu

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Translations from the French
The French Cultural Services and PEN American Center are pleased to announce that the French government is inaugurating an ambitious new program of support for translations from French into English. The goal over the next three years is to create a series of fifty books, published in English, that will represent the very best of contemporary French writing in a number of fields. Each book in the series will be marked with a special logo, and will include a preface by a writer well-known in the United States.

In order to qualify for support, the original work must have been published in French no earlier than 2000. Support will be granted to works of literature (fiction, memoir, poetry, drama, etc.) and works in the humanities and social sciences. Each title supported will receive a grant of $6,000; additional funding may be available for works that are particularly voluminous or challenging.

The grants will be awarded by a committee made up of French and American editors, writers, translators, and others. Application for support may be made by publishers, agents, or translators. Applications should include a one-page description of the book to be translated and its importance, CVs of the writer and translator, information on the availability of English-language rights to the work, and a five-page sample translation into English.

Applicants should submit seven copies of this documentation, as well as one copy of the book to be translated, to the French Cultural Services. Electronic submissions cannot be accepted. Applications may be submitted between October 1 and February 15, after which the Committee will make its selection of the. In 2007 and 2008, support will be granted to 20 projects.

For further information, please contact:

Fabrice Rozié, Literary Attaché, at: fabrice.rozie@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Anne-Sophie Hermil at: anne-sophie.hermil@diplomatie.gouv.fr

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Turntable + Blue Light
Following is a brief summary of submission guidelines:

VISUAL ART
665 pixels max width * can be jpeg or gif - 72 dpi
Please submit at least 5-7 pieces, and no more than 15.

POETRY/PROSE
Please submit work in an attached Word file, and include at least 5-7 poems/pieces, and no more than 12 individual pieces. Work can be emailed or snail-mailed.

MUSIC
Please submit a query letter first, describing who you'd like to profile and what kind of review you'd like to write and include a couple samples of your work. The sample articles/pieces needn't have been published before.

TRIPPINESS
This section is very open-ended, and includes articles on metaphysical topics, travel experiences, psychedelic art, and strange life tales.

Thank you again for all of your wonderful work and for reading and visiting this past year!!

Arielle
Arielle Guy, Editor
Turntable & Blue Light Magazine
358 7th Avenue, Suite 101
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Tel.: 917-903-0178
www.wordone-ny.com
www.turntablebluelight.com

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Toad Press is now accepting submissions of chapbook-length translations for the International Chapbook Series. Send 16-25 pages of poetry or prose, cover sheet with name and contact information, table of contents (if applicable), acknowledgements page, and SASE for reply to:
     Genevieve Kaplan, editor
     Toad Press
     4985 W. 7th Street, #18
     Reno, Nevada 89503
Please see our website (www.toadpress.blogspot.com) for more information about submissions and recent publications.

Published biannually in March and October by Johns Hopkins UP for Dickinson College, Sirena is an international and multilingual journal of poetry, art and criticism, publishing the original work of poets and artists from around the globe. In the case of poetry, each work appears in its original language as well as in translation into Spanish and English. Poets such as Günter Grass, Günter Kunert, Robert Creeley, Eleanor Wilner, Pablo García Baena, Adrian Mitchell, Sujata Bhatt and others, are contributors to this journal.

Sirena, given its international and multilingual characteristics, invites translators of any language into English and into Spanish to contact the editor to be included in the journal’s translation team. Currently we are particularly interested in translators from Korean, Russian, Gaelic, and Dutch into SPANISH.

CRITICISM: Sirena is a fully refereed journal, and welcomes scholarly essays on poetry (any period and origin), art criticism, and translation studies. These papers, preferably, need to be written in English, Spanish, German or French, but other languages are also accepted upon the editor's approval. Papers need to conform to the MLA Style and should not exceed 6500 words, excluding Works Cited.

Papers or poetry submissions can be sent through Email as an attachment in MS Word or TXT format to: sirena@dickinson.edu or by postal mail to:

Jorge R. Sagastume
Editor
Dickinson College
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Carlisle, PA - 17013

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RHINO Magazine is a literary annual that invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. We publish poetry, short-shorts, translations, and occasional brief essays on poetry. We encourage regional talent while listening to voices from around the world. See our web site for details: http://rhinopoetry.org. Past contributors include Ray Gonzalez, Arielle Greenberg, Sharon Kraus, and Alexis Levitin.

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Languageandculture.net welcomes original poetry and its English translation in the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and German. Other languages are under review. We accept translations of known writers: please include the original language. Poems will be published side by side. Languageandculture.net also accepts a percentage of original poetry in English. Please check the website for guidelines and address inquiries to info@languageandculture.net. We also offer an annual poetry contest.

Languageandculture.net
4000 Pimlico Drive, Ste. 114-192
Pleasanton, CA 94588

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PASSPORT: The Arkansas Review of Literary Translation
Programs in Creative Writing and Translation
333 Kimpel Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
http://uark.edu/~passport

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PUBLISHING INTERNSHIP

The Center for the Art of Translation is a nonprofit organization that promotes world literature and translation through programs in the arts, education, and community outreach.

The Center is currently seeking an intern for TWO LINES, an acclaimed annual anthology of world writing in translation that is devoted to new translations into English from any language or literary genre.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The publishing intern learns firsthand how a small press operates by assisting on one complete publication cycle of TWO LINES, which encompasses editorial, production, and marketing projects as well as event planning.

EDITORIAL responsibilities include processing, photocopying, and tracking submissions to our annual anthology. The publishing intern also sits on the editorial committee that reads and discusses submissions.

PRODUCTION responsibilities include formatting files for design and proofreading files in preparation for printing.

MARKETING responsibilities include preparing press kits, sending out review copies, and processing book orders.

The publishing intern also works on CULTURAL EVENTS, which includes publicity and outreach projects such as researching, copywriting, and proofreading press releases, and distributing posters and other marketing materials locally. The publishing intern attends events, helping staff to set up beforehand and clean up afterwards.

REQUIREMENTS

Interest in nonprofit arts administration

Mature communication skills

Proficiency in a second or foreign language

Completed coursework in literature

Mac proficiency preferred

COMPENSATION

Although we are unable to offer paid internships, interns receive credit in our publications, participate in cultural events, and work with professionals in the fields of literary arts administration, education, and publishing. Speak with your academic advisor or internship coordinator about earning COURSE CREDIT.

DURATION

8-12 hours per week from September through June 2008. Minimum commitment of one semester.

HOW TO APPLY

Send a resume and letter of interest describing what skills and abilities you would bring to the position and what experience you hope to gain.

Center for the Art of Translation

ATTN: Annie Janusch, TWO LINES Publications Manager

35 Stillman Street, Suite 201

San Francisco, CA 94107

Phone: (415) 512-8812

Email: ajanusch@catranslation.org