Metaglossia: The Translation World

Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick
This article is an account of the personal journey of one writer, from her first encounters in the 1970s with fellow scholars sharing an interest in translation and a sense of frustration at the anti-translation prejudices of many colleagues working in literature or linguistics at that time. The article traces the gradual rise of translation studies as an important field in its own right, but raises questions about the present state of the discipline, arguing that as translation studies has become more established, so it is failing to challenge orthodoxies and risks being left behind by the more innovative and exciting research now emerging from within world literature, postcolonialism, and cultural memory studies. I suggest that translation studies has reached a cross-roads and needs to reach out to other disciplines, taking advantage of what is being hailed by some as a translational turn within the humanities in general.

Translation Studies Research Forum, Tuesday 22 May 2012, 2-5pm, Ashley Building, Room, 422, College of Arts and Law

Guest speaker: Professor Susan Bassnett
Following the very successful event with Professor Theo Hermans in 2009, we are delighted to announce that we will be holding another meeting of the Translation Studies Research Forum in May 2012.