Living in Languages

       traversing borders, disciplines, and mediums.

Call for Submissions: Living in Languages Journal

The editorial team of Living in Languages invites submissions of creative and critical works for our upcoming issue. Living in Languages is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to translation in its broadest senses—literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic. Founded at the State University of New York at Albany as a collaboration between the Departments of English, and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the journal is now supported by an expanded network of scholars from multiple universities and departments, maintaining its multilingual, interdisciplinary mission.
We welcome:

• Literary translations (with both source and target texts),
• Creative works that engage translation as method or theme,
• Critical essays exploring translation across contexts—textual, visual, sonic, or embodied.

We are particularly interested in work that interrogates:

• Translation as reading, interpretation, and ideology,
• The politics of adaptation, assimilation, and cultural transmission,
• Translation’s roles in maintaining or subverting hierarchies of power,
• Migratory crossings and diasporic negotiations,
• Colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial forces shaping language and meaning.

We encourage submissions that traverse disciplinary boundaries and that challenge conventional understandings of translation—whether as practice, metaphor, or theoretical framework.

All submissions must be made through our online portal: https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/liljournal/.

Format/ Font:

MS Word in MLA 9th Edition. All work must be original and unpublished. Any literary translations must include both source and target languages in addition to any necessary authorial and/or publishers’ consent. An acknowledgment shall be sent upon receipt. Any suggested revisions by the editor and peer reviewers must be returned in two weeks without delay. Simultaneous submissions are not allowed.

Copy-write Statement:

Living in Languages Translation Journal is dedicated to open access for academic work, permitting any individual to read, download, copy, distribute, print, link, or search all texts for lawful purposes. All editions and articles published in LiL’ Journal are free to access as of the date of publication. LiL’ Journal does not charge any fees to access works for scholarly purposes. 

All individual works published via Living in Languages Graduate Journal are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International: CC BY-NY 4.0: This allows for the reproduction of articles, free of charge, for non-commercial use only, and always with appropriate citational information. All authors publishing with LiL’ Journal accept these as the terms of publication.