For years I've wanted to teach an ecocritical course on Nordic cinema. Didn't expect that I'd end up doing it in German, but I'm very grateful for the opportunity offered by HU Berlin and for the 15 curious and whip-smart BA and MA students who enrolled. Next week we're discussing 'Antichrist' 😅

Mín týðing til enskt av 'Eg skrivi á vátt pappír' eftir Lív Mariu Róadóttir Jæger er júst útgivin sum 'I Write on Wet Paper.' Tað er ein sera stór heiður at fáa høvi at týða, serliga yrkingar, enn serligari yrkingar skrivaðar av einum av teimum kulastu menniskjum, eg nakrantíð havi møtt. 🇫🇴

After 4+ years in the works, my translation of the inimitable Monika Fagerholm’s acclaimed, defiant novel ‘Vem dödade Bambi?‘ will be out in March 2026 with University of Wisconsin Press. Brace yourself. uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/W/Who-...

Pozdrowienia z Warszawy

The registration for my little course on appreciating translations has been live for a few weeks already, but I neglected to share here. Starting next Monday – Please share widely! (even on twitter, since I don't have it anymore) krieger.jhu.edu/.../pro.../h...

On today’s journey to Köln, however, I am grateful for the boomer probably named Werner or Wolfgang who is wasting no time reminding people “Hier soll man ja den Ruhebereich respektieren danke“. ☺️

The definition of insanity is continuously booking a seat in the quiet car, believing it will actually be quiet.

antiquario, or, turning 31 in palermo

Meanwhile as I wait to meet my therapist. Very on brand

“Life becomes a death penalty wherever it is reduced to a recycling system.” Katrin Pahl and Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky on temporality and emotionality in Queer Post-Cinema and the latter’s new book *Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance* at the ICI tonight.

"Everything looks like abandonment of the classics to someone who has read three books." Too catty a sentence to write in an academic paper?

I'm so thrilled that my translation of Roskva Koritzinsky's delicately gothic story "Night Watch" - about a woman who works the night shift at a psychiatric institution - is finally published over at Joyland Magazine. The first paragraph alone embodies everything I love about literary prose.

I'm so thrilled that my translation of Roskva Koritzinsky's delicately gothic story "Night Watch" - about a woman who works the night shift at a psychiatric institution - is finally published over at Joyland Magazine. The first paragraph alone embodies everything I love about literary prose.

Ich bin sehr dankbar für die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social 💜 www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full-length German language works. Andrew Shanks for Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry by Nelly Sachs (@carcanet.bsky.social) #TranslationPrizes

ADHD is having a longstanding to-do list of important things, but doing other things that are less important and then afterwards adding them to said to-do list and crossing them out because then it feels like you've done something you were "supposed" to do

Happy to be amongst such a formidable group of translators as a 2025 NEA Translation Fellow, to finish up my work on Monika Fagerholm’s WHO KILLED BAMBI? www.arts.gov/impact/liter...

Happy to be amongst such a formidable group of translators as a 2025 NEA Translation Fellow, to finish up my work on Monika Fagerholm’s WHO KILLED BAMBI? www.arts.gov/impact/liter...

Join @johannesg.bsky.social and I for a virtual reading from our recent translations of Ann Jäderlund's LONESPEECH and Katarina Frostenson's THE SPACE OF TIME. Moderated by the incomparable Robin Myers. Hosted by Scandinavia House. Tues, Jan 14, 2:00pm EST www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/new-sw...

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

An abridged version of my Translator’s Note to Katarina Frostenson’s THE SPACE OF TIME is now up over at Hopscotch Translation. hopscotchtranslation.com/2024/11/26/a...

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by @carcanet.bsky.social.

The first book of poetry I translated (which I began in 2016) is now out in the world! THE SPACE OF TIME by Katarina Frostenson Translated from Swedish With Translator's Note and Afterword by Carin Franzén Published by Threadsuns Press threadsunspress.com/product/the-...

First post kinda nervous Hi I’m Brad. I grew up in a farm in Minnesota. I’m trying to write a dissertation on eco-corporeality in 20th century German and Nordic poetry. I also translate things. For the time being I live in Berlin.