Confirmation of new Interlitq Consulting Editors with effect from Issue 9

The Board of Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” is delighted to confirm the incorporation of the following distinguished figures from the fields of literature and the arts as Consulting Editors of the review with effect from Issue 9:  Frank Ankersmit, Reza Aslan, Michael Barry, Jean Boase-Beier, Mario Biagioli, Stanley Cavell, Hollis Clayson, Sarah Churchwell, Kristina Cordero, Drucilla Cornell, André Dombrowski, Klaus Ebner, Orlando Figes, Nancy Fraser, Maureen Freely, Michael Fried, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Grossberg, Elizabeth Grosz, Valerie Henitiuk, Martin Kern, Joseph Koerner, Mabel Lee, Linda Leith, Edie Meidav, Jack Miles, Laura Mulvey, Azar Nafisi, Sari Nusseibeh, Clare Pettitt, Robert Pinsky, François Rigolot, Carla Sassi, Hadaa Sendoo, Miranda Seymour, Mimi Sheller, Elaine Showalter, Penelope Shuttle, Julian Stallabrass, Marjorie Trusted, Lidia Vianu, Victor Vitanza, David Wellbery.

André Dombrowski to be a Consulting Editor of Interlitq

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that André Dombrowski, an Assistant Professor of 19th-Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania, who is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life”, for which he recently won the 2009 Phillips Book Prize from the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C,  and a recipient of a two-year fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Düsseldorf and a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2008-9, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of Interlitq with effect from Issue 9.

Reza Aslan to lead AAR panel on the subject of “Islam and Modernity” in Montréal on November 7th

Constituting part of the “American Academy of Religion” Conference (November 7th-10th, 2009), Reza Aslan, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, whose works include “No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, and who has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of “The International Literary Quarterly” with  effect from Issue 9, will be leading an AAR panel (alongside Nilüfer Göle, Tariq Ramadan and Robin Wright) on the subject of “Islam and Modernity”. The event will be held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada, on Saturday, November 7th, 4pm-6.30pm.

ALTA’s 32nd Annual Conference to host a roundtable on Suzanne Jill Levine’s “The Subversive Scribe”

The American Literary Translators Association’s 32nd Annual Conference in California will be hosting a roundtable on “The Subversive Scribe”, the highly-regarded monograph on the process of translation by Suzanne Jill Levine, Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a recipient of the PEN American Award for Career Achievement in Hispanic Studies, and a contributor to Issue 1 of “The International Literary Quarterly”. The roundtable will be held in San Gabriel, on Wednesday, November 11th 9.30am-10.45am, and the participants will be Steven Bradbury, Jill Gibian, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Beth Pollack.

Essay by Maria Filippakopoulou also to appear in Issue 9 of Interlitq

The essay, “Foreign in our own country”, by Maria Filippakopoulou, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, will also be published in Issue 9 of Interlitq. Filippakopoulou’s essay focuses on “translation as the means by which to best explore and understand literature and poetry”, and has as its centrepiece a discussion of the poetry of Richard Berengarten, a Consulting Editor of Interlitq.