In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte as he sits down with Will Evans, an award-winning publisher of Deep Vellum Publishing (2013), writer, translator, bookstore owner of Deep Vellum Books (2015), professor, and literary arts advocate. His expertise in publishing translations gives insight as to what publishers seek to publish, and discusses how and why translations are overlooked by big publishers. You will hear about how he got started in translation and publishing, and what the future...
May 09, 2025•34 min
In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte as he sits down with Heather Cleary, an esteemed translator who has played a pivotal role in bringing Latin American literature to English-speaking audiences, translating works by celebrated authors, and helping to bridge cultural divides. Her expertise in translation offers insights into the challenges and rewards of making Latin American narratives accessible to a broader audience. You will hear about Cleary's journey as both translator and educato...
Oct 29, 2024•26 min
In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte as he virtually sits down with Luise von Flotow, Translator and Professor of Translation and Interpretation at the Univeristy of Ottawa in Canada. You will hear about Luise’s journey teaching about the setbacks she’s faced as translator and the challenges translation studies face in academia, culturally, and politically. Luise von Flotow, has taught Translation Studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada since 1996. Her main research interests lie ...
Jul 19, 2024•35 min
In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte as he virtually sits down with Peter Filkins, Translator and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock. You will hear about Peter's journey teaching his translation course at Bard's College and his experience translating Ingeborg Bachmann. Peter Filkins has translated Ingeborg Bachmann’s collected poems, Darkness Spoken , the second expanded edition of which appears in April 2024. His translation of two novel fragme...
Jun 05, 2024•25 min
In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest co-host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with Edward Burke, a literary magazine flash fiction writer who goes by the anonym "strannikov". You will hear about Edward's journey as a writer, his experiences with poetry, and his perspective on making poetry more accessible to younger generations. Edward has published essays since 2011 appearing online in literary journals and magazines, such as Fictionaut, Dead Mule School of Southern ...
Feb 20, 2024•35 min•Ep. 28
In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest co-host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with Sean Cotter, Translator and Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology. You will hear about Sean's journey as a translator of the Romanian, his experience translating Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, and his perspective on the Romanian literary translation scene. Sean, an award-wi...
Aug 25, 2023•30 min•Ep. 27
In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte and guest host Shelby Vincent as they virtually sit down with renowned author Carmen Boullosa. You will hear about Carmen's journey as a Mexican writer, and gain insights into her visionary perspective on the future of writers and readers. Carmen Boullosa is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry and has published nineteen novels (Shelby Vincent translated Heavens on Earth; her most recent novel - The Book of Eve - was translated by Samantha Schnee)...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 4 min
In this new episode, host Rainer Schulte sits down with Mark Polizzotti for a virtual conversation about poet Arthur Rimbaud. Most recently Mark Polizzotti published The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud. In this volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud’s major poems and letters. Polizzotti has translated more than 50 books from French and he is the recipient of numerous prizes and the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the M...
Oct 05, 2022•41 min•Ep. 25
In this new episode, host Rainer Schulte sat down with Harvard Professor Louis Menand for a virtual conversation on the future of the humanities. In December 2021, Menand published an essay in The New Yorker titled “What’s so Great about Great-Books Courses,” which is certain to be of interest to those who study and teach the Humanities. Menand was previously an associate editor of The New Republic, editor of The New Yorker, and contributing editor of the New York Review of Books. He is currentl...
Jun 15, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 24
In the season finale, Sarah Valente sat down with Pulitzer Prize winning author Benjamin Moser, for a virtual conversation about their shared love of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Ben is responsible for making Clarice widely available in translation in the English-speaking world. Because of his work, Sarah was able to organize a single author course on Clarice Lispector last spring, where American university students, for the first time in their lives, heard the name and studied the works ...
Dec 18, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 23
When reading a text in translation are you reading the author’s writing or the translator’s writing? Listen to this thought-provoking conversation in which author Claudia Hamm and translator Johnny Becker discuss Claudia's essay entitled, “Who does a translated text belong to?” published in Germany's leading intellectual review Merkur in April 2018. In this rich discussion our guests and hosts address issues of equivalency and voice in translation. This episode invites you to explore how to appr...
Dec 03, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this episode, we speak with poet, translator, and professor Julia Leverone. Julia is the creator and editor of AzonaL , an online poetry-in-translation magazine. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in Comparative Literature with a primary focus on Latin America and a second focus on the poetry of the United States in the 20th century. Over fifty of her translations of poems from the Spanish have been published in literary venues such as Witness and the Boston Re...
Nov 19, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode, guest host Shelby Vincent speaks with translator, writer, and editor Samantha Schnee . Schnee's translation of Carmen Boullosa’s penultimate novel, The Book of Anna , was published by Coffee House Press last year, and her translation of Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. Listen to this insightful conversation to learn about Schnee’s process of translation, her experience as founding editor of Words Without Borders , which by ...
Nov 05, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Spanning six decades and circling the globe, Dr. Samuel John Hazo’s creative work includes poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and various works of translation. Listen to his conversation with Sarah and Rainer to learn about the remarkable founder and director of the International Poetry Forum , which ran from 1966 until 2009 in Pittsburgh. Sam Hazo recalls insightful memories about his experiences hosting hundreds of distinguished poets and performers from around the world, from poets like Yevgeny ...
Oct 22, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 19
As civil engineer in Madrid since 2003, Javier García del Moral built highways and bridges in Spain, Ireland, the Middle East and the US. Then, he began to build cultural bridges through his love of books, literature, and languages. In 2014, Javier founded The Wild Detectives bookstore bar in Dallas, along with his longtime friend Paco Vique. He currently directs the bookstore with the help of many friends. In 2019, Javier also founded the Spanish restaurant Sketches of Spain . Listen to this de...
Oct 08, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this new episode, host Sarah Valente interviews multi Emmy-award winning American film director Rick Wallace. Learn about his decades of experience directing almost 100 hours of prime time television, both series and movies for television, and also producing over 250 hours of television. Some of the shows he has directed and produced include Hill Street Blues, LA Law, NYPD Blue, The Closer, and Law and Order SVU. Listen to this exciting episode to learn how the arts, humanities, and creative ...
May 28, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte introduces one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth-century: Stéphane Mallarmé. His poetic creations deeply influenced the poetic thinking of twentieth-century poets. Listen to learn about the French poet Mallarmé (1842-1898).
May 15, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Austrian poet and author Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). A recipient of the Prize of the Group 47, Georg Buchner Prize, and Anton Wildgans Prize, Bachmann's poetry reflects the political realities from her youth. Listen the our New Poetic Vision series today to travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry with Professor Rainer Schulte and learn about poets whose wor...
Apr 30, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz (1914-1998). Recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century, Paz was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1982, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. In this episode, Schulte discusses how Octavio Paz introduces us to a different way of thinking in the 20th centur...
Apr 16, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this new episode of the New Poetic Visions series, Professor Rainer Schulte discusses the influential Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) , whose famous works include Duino Elegies (1922), Sonnet to Orpheus (1922), and Letter to a Young Poet (1929). In this episode, we learn how Rilke contributed to create a different way of creating situations through his writings. Travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry with Professor Rainer Sc...
Apr 02, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today we introduce New Poetic Visions. In this new series, Professor Rainer Schulte presents 20th century modern poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the second episode of this new series, Schulte discusses the influential Austrian writer, poet, novelist, and playwright Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016). Join us in the New Poetic Visions series, as we travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry....
Mar 19, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Listen to an invigorating conversation with award-winning publisher, translator, bookstore owner, writer, and literary arts advocate Will Evans. He is the founder and CEO of Deep Vellum Publishing, a nonprofit literary arts organization founded in 2013, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories, and making our world a more literary place through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts. In this episode he...
Mar 06, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today we introduce New Poetic Visions. In this new series, Professor Rainer Schulte presents 20th century modern poets whose works profoundly changed the way we interpret poetry and the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the first episode of this new series, Schulte discusses the influential French poet, critic, and acclaimed translator Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Join us in the New Poetic Visions series, as we travel through the world of 20th century literary translation and poetry....
Feb 26, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode we discuss Improvisation with Kathy Lingo, a Theatre and Stage Film Actor and Director, Forensics Coach and is a Professor of Instruction teaching Acting for Screen, Improvisation, Reader’s Theatre and Oral Interpretation. She has taught at the University of Texas at Dallas for over 20 years and has been teaching for over 35 years. Her student, Kirtana Kalavagunta, a senior majoring in Computer Science and minoring with a Theatre degree, joins the conversation adding her unique p...
Feb 05, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 9
We often hear about a "crisis in the Humanities". In this last episode of the season, Rainer Schulte speaks with special guest Nils Roemer, the dean of the School of Arts, about the current state of the Humanities. Listen to this insightful conversation that highlights the importance of creativity and play in the Humanities and what we might expect for the future.
Dec 04, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Enjoy an illuminating conversation between writer and artist Kendra Greene and Rainer Schulte, as they discuss her latest book, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See (Penguin Books, 2020). Listen as they immerse into the fantastic world of museums, Giftschranks , and the wonders, that as Kendra writes, are “there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open.”...
Nov 20, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Listen to this insightful conversation with award-winning Brazilian writer Bernardo Kucinski, whose novel K garnered international critical acclaim. K is the story of a father who searches for his daughter, disappeared during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The first Brazilian edition sold out in a few weeks, and was shortlisted for many literary awards. In this episode Kucinski discusses how his novel deals with loss, memory, and the national amnesia that Brazil experiences vis-à-vis its m...
Nov 06, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this new episode, Dr. Rainer Schulte and Dr. Sarah Valente speak with Dr. Thomas Hoeksema, professor emeritus at New Mexico State University, about Bible translation and literature. Hoeksema is a founding member of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and served as president of ALTA from 1989-1991. He has been a contributing editor and member of the Advisory Board of Translation Review since its inception at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1978. His interest in the transl...
Oct 23, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, we speak with German publisher and editor Christine Becker about the life and works of her late husband Jurek Becker, the author of highly acclaimed works of literature, who garnered international acclaim with his debut novel Jacob the Liar, the first comic novel on the Holocaust. Christine Becker has edited many of Jurek’s works, including a most recent collection of postcards, Am Strand von Bochum ist allerhand los - Postkarten, which was highly praised by critics....
Oct 10, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode, guest host Dr. Shelby Vincent, research associate in the Center for Translation Studies and lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, interviews Colombian writer, art critic and curator, Juan Cárdenas and translator Lizzie Davis about Juan’s English-language debut novel Ornamental (Coffee House Press, 2020). Juan was named one the thirty-nine best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine by the Hay Festival in Bogotá in 2017. ...
Sep 25, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 3
