Reading in Translation

Translations Reviewed by Translators

Aiming to address the general neglect of translated literature in mainstream Anglophone publications, Reading in Translation (ISSN 2770-7989) publishes reviews of translated literature written by translators, essays on translation, interviews with translators and independent publishers, as well as special issues on translated authors.  Inspired by the PEN American Center Translation Committee‘s work to make translation more visible, we hope our work serves as a model for reviews that evaluate the quality of the translation and acknowledge the contribution of the translator to the text. 

Masthead: Reading in Translation (ISSN 2770-7989)

Stiliana Milkova, Editor. At Reading in Translation, Stiliana has inaugurated several new columns to expand the scope of the journal and to cover more topics in literary translation. Translators on Books that Should be Translated publishes essays on books that merit translation in English. Essays on Translation features short articles on translation theory and practice. And our special issues such as those on Elena Ferrante, Natalia Ginzburg, or Domenico Starnone examine in more depth a translated author through short essays, interviews, and first-time English translations. For more on her involvement with the journal, see this Q&A.

Lucina Schell, Founding Editor. 
Lucina works in international rights for the University of Chicago Press and is founding editor of Reading in Translation. She is a member of the Third Coast Translators Collective, and translates poetry from the Spanish. Recent translations include So That Something Remains Lit by Daiana Henderson (Cardboard House Press DRONE Chapbook Series, 2018) and Vision of the Children of Evil by Miguel Ángel Bustos (co•im•press, 2018).  For more on the genesis of Reading in Translation, see Lucina Schell's interview with Lisa Carter at Intralingo.

Editorial Board
Our Editorial Board is involved in the selection of books to review, the commissioning and seeing to completion of reviews, and the monitoring of the quality and diversity of the translated literature we review. 

Nathan Dize earned his PhD from the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University. He is a co-founder & co-editor (with Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo) of the digital history project A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789. With Siobhan Meï, he co-edits the “Haiti in Translation” interview series for H-Haiti. Nathan is also an Advisory Board member and Haitian Creole translator for "Rendering Revolution: Sartorial Approaches to Haitian History". He has translated poetry and fiction by numerous Haitian authors, including Kettly Mars, Charles Moravia, James Noël, Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey, and Évelyne Trouillot. His translation of Makenzy Orcel’s The Immortals was released in November 2020 with SUNY Press and his translation of Kettly Mars's I Am Alive is contracted with CARAF Books with the University of Virginia Press. He regularly contributes reviews and essays to Age of Revolutions, Nursing Clio, and Reading in Translation. He is a founding member of the kwazman vwa collective, which amplifies the work of emerging Caribbean authors.

Enrica Maria Ferrara is a Tenured Teaching Fellow of Italian at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a writer of non-fiction, translator, and poet. She has published widely in the field of Italian studies, comparative literature, and film. Her recent titles include Staged Narratives / Narrative Stages, co-edited with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin (Florence: Franco Cesati, 2017), the English translation of the volume Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples, edited by D. Cecere, C. De Caprio et al (Rome: Viella, 2018), and the volume Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Enrica regularly contributes to online journals and print publications, including Academic Matters, The Conversation, Reading in Translation, Simposio Italiano, and others. Enrica is currently working on the last draft of her debut novel. 

Eric Gudas is the author of Best Western and Other Poems; his prose about literature, photography, music, and film has appeared in All About Jazz, Raritan, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Flash, and elsewhere.

Barbara Halla is Assistant Editor at Asymptote working on soliciting and promoting translated fiction from all over the globe. She works as a translator and researcher, focusing in particular on the writings of contemporary and classic Albanian women authors. Barbara has also written about the cultural roots of sexual violence in Albania for Politikja, Albanian academic journal and is a contributing writer for the online feminist magazine Shota. She holds a BA in History from Harvard and has lived in Cambridge, Paris, and Tirana.

D.P. Snyder is a bilingual writer and translator from Spanish. Her translations have appeared in Two Lines Journal, Review: Literature and Art of the Americas, World Literature Today, and Latin American Literature Today, among others. Books: Meaty Pleasures (Katakana Editores 2021), short fiction by Mexican writer Mónica Lavín; Arrhythmias (Literal Publishing & Hablemos, escritoras 2022) by Mexican Jewish writer Angelina Muñiz-Huberman. 

Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski is Associate Professor of Romance and German Studies at Duke University. The author of the award-winning book Kafka's Italian Progeny (2020), she researches Italian literature and culture from a comparative perspective, especially in terms of the connections between Italy and German-language countries. She is the co-editor of Natalia Ginzburg's Global Legacies (2024) and is currently working on a monograph on Jewishness in modern Italian literature.