Call for papers

Despite increased interest in the field of reception within Translation Studies, the readers of translated literature remain an under-researched field of enquiry. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars and professionals to begin to address the issue of who we are referring to when we talk about a “reader” of translated literature in the anglophone context and to ask how can we open up lines of enquiry that enable to answer the following questions: How do readers read in translation? How do readers make sense of the other in a translated text? How do they identify and negotiate cultural difference? The benefits of such research would be of interest to both the discipline of translation studies as well as to profession and practice, and has potential to generate rich cross-disciplinary dialogue. Because of this, we encourage participation from all fields, including academics, translation and publishing professionals, translators, librarians, booksellers, readers and authors.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Research methods

• Ethnographic approaches to the study of reception

• Reviewing translations

• The impact of paratextual material on reading in translation

• Social media and reading in translation

• The role of publishers and editors

• Blogs and online review sites

• The imagined reader across different cultures and genres

• Reading communities and translation