TSSL Fall 2025 research fellowships are $15.25/hour, 5 hours a week. Apply to open positions by clicking on the linked title.

Translation Research Fellow

Priority Application Deadline: August 30

Faculty Leads: Sara Kippur (French, Francophone, and Italian Studies), Mingwei Song (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literary Studies, and East Asian Studies), Rachid Aadnani (Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, and Jewish Studies), Evelina Guzauskyte (Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies), and Eve Zimmerman (East Asian Languages and Cultures and East Asian Studies)

Openings: 5

The Translation Lab’s goal is to show the growing importance of translation as both an academic discipline and a creative practice. We believe that students engage more deeply with literary texts when they grapple with the riddles and contradictions of translation. Our team members, Sara Kippur (French), Mingwei Song (Chinese), Rachid Aadnani (Arabic), Evelina Guzauskyte (Spanish), and Eve Zimmerman (Japanese) have all used translation studies in their own work and in their teaching, or are literary translators themselves, and are thus ideally positioned to work closely with student research fellows.

Our plan is to hire 5 students with whom we will work for the academic year, each of whom will work on a translation project and/or translation studies project. We will hold 3 large group meetings per semester, which will include invited translators (attendance required and paid as work time), and we will schedule 1 meeting per semester for students to meet on their own and brainstorm solutions to problems. Students will report back to the large group in the last meeting of each semester, focusing on problems, solutions, and translation issues they have encountered. Faculty members will also maintain contact and supervise the students they have hired. Translation lab projects will range from the practical to the theoretical, with some straddling the space in between. Individual faculty will be responsible for selecting the students in their particular language.