Rachel Galvin
Rachel Galvin
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Translation Studies
University of Chicago
Research Project
SummerSALT: Translation Theory, Translation Practice
Project Team:
2024 – 2025
Front cover of Jol Boner Kabyo by Sarala Basu (detail). Photo by Romana Klee via Flickr.
Key Question
In what ways does the inclusion of the writer during the translation process shape the methodology and outcome?
Project Summary
Writers and translators will gather at a series of workshops to explore questions about translation theory and craft.
Literary translation is by definition a collaborative practice. The SummerSALT translation workshops for emerging translators working from South Asian languages will serve as a living laboratory for translators and writers to further investigate: To what extent does the inclusion of the writers of the texts during the real-time process of translation shape the methodology and outcome? This first-of-its-kind gathering this summer in Colombo, Sri Lanka, will put into practice both the theoretical and craft-based strands of translation studies, and allow the workshops to explore questions of translations as co-present texts that are iterative versions of the same work, rather than as a hierarchy between translation and original.
Research Team
Jason Grunebaum
Jason Grunebaum
Instructional Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Daniel Hahn
Annie Janusch
Daisy Rockwell
Arunava Sinha
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