British Centre for Literary Translation
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) provides an important focus for the various activities in the School that rely on translation.
It organises a series of events throughout the year, such as book launches and talks, as well as the annual International Summer School in Literary Translation, which allows writers and translators with varied levels of experience to work together for a week in July. Postgraduate students in the School able to attend at a greatly reduced rate.
British Centre for Literary Translation Internship Programme
The BCLT is pleased to offer an internship programme for students in the MALT programme. It will provide them with more work and field experience, and allow them a chance to work with the BCLT more closely and to make contacts in the world of literary translation.
There will be two interns. The timing of the internship will not follow the semester schedule exactly because of the way the BCLT schedule is, but one intern will be in the autumn/winter period and one in the winter/spring, and both will work at the summer school. Each student would be asked to contribute 25 hours during the course of his/her service period; this is approximately two hours per week, but the timing would be flexible, depending on the BCLT's activities and the students' other commitments and work.
Some general tasks that the interns might work on include: helping to catalogue and organise the BCLT library; assisting with correspondence and contacting possible advertisers for In Other Words; or helping with a BCLT event by contacting speakers, working on promotion, and/or hosting and facilitating at the event itself. For the autumn term, the intern could also contribute to the international literature book group; man a BCLT stand at the literary festival; help with events at UEA and Free Word; assist with the Celan event at the Goethe-Institut; and contribute to planning the Sebald lecture. For the spring term, the intern could also work on the Sebald Lecture; help plan the translation events at the London Book Fair; help with hosting the Charles Wallace fellows; order books for the summer school; and plan and promote the summer school. Both interns would be involved with the summer school, working on planning; promotion and publicity; contacting authors, translators, and sponsors; putting together conference packs; helping with bursary decisions; and serving as hosts.
The student interns will receive a variety of perquisites (such as tickets to BCLT and other literary events and subscriptions to In Other Words) along with an honorarium.
For more information and/or to apply, contact B.J. Epstein at B.Epstein@uea.ac.uk To apply, submit a paragraph about yourself and what you could offer the BCLT, along with your CV, and a list of your language skills, by 1 September.