Deadline is now days away- translators please take note!

Putting this here again as a reminder … six weeks away from the submission deadline! Please circulate!!

Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16. nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

Very excited to announce the winner of the 2025 HiT (Humanities in Translation) Prize! humanities.northwestern.edu/about/transl...

A lot has been happening in South Asia and a lot has been written about it. This story becomes even more relevant now 👇 Pakistan & Bangladesh strengthen ties and the shift is making New Delhi uneasy. Waleed Nasir writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in...

From December 2023: Daniel Majchrowicz’s The World in Words illustrates the ways in which Southasians imagined new geographies and cultures and their relationship to them, conveyed through the production and circulation of travel writing across the subcontinent. buff.ly/SW0VHJY.

I had a wonderful time recording the latest episode of the Feminist #Translation Network podcast with the brilliant Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social!! We talked about feminist translation, disruptive strategies...and even sledgehammers #iykyk

Packed the house last night for this stimulating conversation around race, caste, and nonviolence at Northwestern #kaplanhumanities dailynorthwestern.com/2025/01/22/c...

Spent some time @artinstitutechi.bsky.social #projectablackplanet to engage in a different worldview than the one we’re being thrust into today

Very important day for the #FeministTranslationStudies community! 🤩 The inaugural issue of our journal is now out with all articles in #FreeAccess until 31 Jan. Come & see! tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/1/1 Pleasure working with @LauraSpoturno, @VMisiou #LucianaCarvalho. Published by @WeAreTandF

Happy 2025 everyone! As caste infiltrates the American discourse and becomes more mainstream in Indian pop culture, we have a brilliant essay today @newlinesmag.bsky.social on Dalit narratives in Indian literatures by @humanprof.bsky.social. Read, read. newlinesmag.com/essays/caste...

My new article in @newlinesmag.bsky.social today… newlinesmag.com/essays/caste...

Finally got my copy in the mail!

Only a month left to submit your application for The Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize! The winner will receive a total cash prize of $5,000 and publication by Northwestern University Press. This year's theme is "living in monstrous times".

“Stitched in black thread by his mother” and the recipient of a $10 faculty award at Harvard, 1821. Go get it Emerson!

WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about—click to read the full list: https://buff.ly/4floVHO

Many years ago in New Mexico a woman who wrote a couple of film reviews for me at the newspaper said, “thank you for the article on my dad.” Her dad was Zakir Hussain. I would have fired myself if we hadn’t written about him coming to town!

I know this is part of/ the reason for peer review, but agreeing to review an article that sounds promising and then discovering how very bad it is… sucks.

End of term brief disappearance into the woods underway…

Jeez… donate to NPR and then immediately have a “driveway moment” … what are the odds www.thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call

Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications! apply.interfolio.com/157701

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Aaand the Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is off to print. Really cut it close here -- our 1st launch event is Dec 21 at Champaca Bookstore in Bangalore! 😅 We're hoping to do events in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, London, & maybe Hyderabad & NYC too... watch this channel! www.blaft.com/products/the...

I like the US cover (on the right) better. Either way, mesmerising book. “Every day when I dictate these thoughts, I open what is left of my broken body to give form to this chaos I have fallen into, to stop myself from dying inside.”

Hometown Thanksgiving weekend bar life…. No beer, plenty of glitter!

Gisele Pelicot’s decision to make public the horrific details of her abuse has transformed her into a reluctant icon, and the courthouse where the rape trial is taking place into a site of pilgrimage for women seeking catharsis, galvanizing a movement of collective reckoning. *Powerful* reporting ⤵️

Reminder! The Humanities in Translation (HiT!) prize competition is still open, do please spread the word! @nupress.bsky.social @buffettinstitute.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

Only a couple of days left to submit your application for the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translators Mentorship. Don't think, just take your shot. Apply here! 👇 www.literarytranslators.org/2025-mentors...

Just read @rkkinra.bsky.social 's introduction to the V&A Great Mughal exhibition catalogue and thought it was utterly brilliant. Such a difficult thing to do in a short essay and pulled off so superbly well

If you weren’t already excited about Black Friday… my Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature is apparently on sale from Routledge! 😆 Ready for gifting ;)

This talk about the humanities and higher ed institutions — and personal and collective purpose — was indeed inspiring and moving 🌹

Since we're all reconvening here, I thought I'd reshare some good news here: A project I’ve been working on all year was published this month: Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). 1/4

Leg day 😐

I created a South Asian languages and literatures starter pack! I’m sure I missed many people. If you are a translator, linguist, scholar, or even a dabbler or dilettante, please let me let me know in the comments and I will add you. go.bsky.app/AFjHSX6

Looks like I forgot to post my mixed metaphors for translation over here. An oversight! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/07...

The Humanities in Translation ( HiT!) Prize is open for submissions! @nupress.bsky.social @buffettinstitute.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

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