Translation Committee
The ICLA Committee on Translation Studies convenes at least once annually. We host a panel at the ACLA Annual Meeting, and at the ICLA Meetings. Our purpose is to promote research and inquiry into translation theory and practice within the framework of Comparative Literature. While we welcome insights from language-pair specific work or data-driven studies, our seminars and publications tend to focus on the impact of translation on society and politics and on literary and intellectual history. Our members find translation indispensable for understanding a wide range of historical and contemporary phenomena from the protection of human rights to the marketing of literature.
President: Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University
Vice-President: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University
Secretary: Golda Van der Meer, University of Barcelona
Steering Committee Members:
Assumpta Camps, University of Barcelona
Hannah Scott Deuchar, Queen Mary University of London
Rindon Kundu, Sri Sri University
Saswati Saha, Sikkim University
Anandi Rao, SOAS, University of London
Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt University
Stephen Zhongqing Wu, Hainan Vocational University
To join, please contact a member of the Steering Committee.
Recent panels sponsored by the ICLA Committee for Translation Studies:
- ACLA 2023, Chicago, IL: ‘Translation Ecologies’
- ICLA 2022, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia: ‘Translation and Reparation’
- ACLA 2022, Virtual Conference with National Taiwan Normal University: ‘Translation and Reparation’
- ACLA 2021, Virtual Conference: ‘Translating Home: Migration, Refuge, and Human Rights’
- ACLA 2019, Georgetown University in Washington, DC: ‘Polyglot Minds and Bodies Politic’
- ACLA 2018, Los Angeles, CA: ‘Delay and Immediacy: Translation Temporalities’
- ACLA 2017, Utrecht, Netherlands: ‘Translation Networks I: Beyond Source and Target / Translation Networks II: Poetry and Cultural Transference’
- ICLA 2016, Vienna, Austria: ‘Engaging Publics in and through Translation’
- ACLA 2016, Cambridge, MA: ‘Engaging Publics in and through Translation’
- ACLA 2015, Seattle, WA: ‘The Rights to Translation’
To download the yearly reports of the Committee to the ICLA, click below:
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2021-2022
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2020-2021
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2019-2020
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2018-2019
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2017-2018
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2016-2017
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2015-2016
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2014-2015
Committee On Translation Annual Report, 2012-2013