Living in Languages
About
The Journal
About

Living in Languages Journal

Living in Languages Journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to translation across and beyond disciplinary boundaries.

We publish scholarship, translations, criticism, and creative and experimental work that approaches translation as a linguistic practice and as a mode of literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical inquiry.

The journal is supported by an editorial community spanning multiple institutions, disciplines, and stages of academic and creative practice. Our editorial team includes scholars affiliated with the University at Albany’s Department of English, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Writing and Critical Inquiry Program; Westfield State University’s Department of English; and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Department of Afro-American Studies. Guest editors and contributors further extend this network across institutions and national contexts.

We are committed to linguistic diversity, cultural heterogeneity, open access, and international scholarship. Alongside established scholars, we particularly welcome work by graduate students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, translators, and writers. We understand publication as both intellectual exchange and editorial collaboration, and we aim to provide space for developing work as well as established scholarship.

Our Mission
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Advance translation studies

We support the practice and study of translation across languages, cultures, media, and disciplinary traditions.
02

Support developing scholarship

We provide space for graduate students, early-career researchers, and independent scholars to develop promising work into publishable form.
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Keep scholarship accessible

As an open-access journal, we aim to make research, translation, and creative work available beyond institutional and disciplinary boundaries.
04

Practice editorial mentorship

Our editorial process can take an apprenticeship-oriented approach, giving developing scholars experience with revision, peer review, and academic publication.
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Foster interdisciplinary and transnational exchange

We bring together scholars, translators, writers, and readers working across languages, institutions, fields, and national contexts.
06

Make room for experimentation

We welcome creative, critical, and formally experimental work that expands what translation—and scholarship about translation—can look like.
Origins

Living in Languages Journal emerged from the intellectual community surrounding the University at Albany’s Living in Languages colloquium. The journal has since developed into an independent publication with a broader international and interdisciplinary scope.

Living in Languages
International · Peer Reviewed · Open Access