For outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies

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1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or research institute in North America.

2) All studies published between the 1st of…[Read more]

The NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over the summer. Fellowships primarily support untenured junior faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. All applicants will be notified before the convention.…[Read more]

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The NeMLA Summer Fellowship Program Summer fellowships up to $1,500 are intended to defray the cost of traveling incurred by researchers in pursuing their work-in-progress over…[Read more]

I am honored and excited to have been nominated for the special delegate position of “Women in the Profession”. Since entering the job market four years ago I have consistently experienced and witnessed the corporatization of our profession. This is especially concerning for women and other minority groups, as we tend to be in the majority in the…[Read more]

Alex Saum-Pascual

Biography: I am Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of California Berkeley where my work has focused on the intersection between literature and digital technologies, specifically as these are expressed in electronic literature. I am both part of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Executive Committee…[Read more]

Under a program of the American Literary Translators Association, a translating mentorship has been created which includes Catalan.  Currently, the experienced translator Ronald Puppo of the Universitat de Vic is helping the emerging translator Scott Shanahan with a translation of Mercè Rodoreda’s “Viatges i flors.” A mentorship lasts for one y…[Read more]

Escriptor de l’Any

Organitzat per Roser Caminals, Novel.lista i professora de Llengua i Literatura Espanyoles   (Hood College)

Escriptor de l’Any és un projecte dissenyat per incrementar la divulgació al Canadà i als Estats Units de la literatura catalana en traducció anglesa. Actualment, els esforços editorials son esporàdics, costosos i…[Read more]

El 15è Col·loqui Internacional de la North American Catalan Society es va celebrar a Barcelona, a la seu de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans, els dies 29-30 de juny i 1 de juliol del 2015. S’hi van reunir uns cent setanta especialistes en catalanística de l’Amèrica del Nord i d’Europa –amb una àmplia representació d’acadèmics procedents dels dife…[Read more]

Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a dossier on “Translation and Iberian Literatures”: http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html

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Over the last three decades, translation has gained increasing visibility and attention in literary studies. This development is related to the questioning of p…[Read more]