Research Guides: Translation Studies: Journals

Translation Studies Journals

One of the best methods of staying current with your field is by browsing the journal literature. Translation Studies journals will keep you abreast of the latest scholarship and help stimulate your own research. The numerous online databases available to you through the library will allow you to search through the contents of these journals (and many others), but browsing through an individual journal will allow you the opportunity for more specific topic research. Here is a small sampling of the Translation Studies journals available through the library:

Babel
Babel is a scholarly journal designed primarily for translators and interpreters, yet of interest also for the nonspecialist concerned with current issues and events in the field of translation. Babel includes articles on translation theory and practice, as well as discussions of the legal, financial and social aspects of the translator’s profession; it reports on new methods of translating, such as machine-aided translation, the use of computerized dictionaries or word banks.
Meta: Translators' Journal
Meta: Journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators' Journal, deals with all aspects of translation and interpretation: translation studies (theories of translation), teaching translation, interpretation research, stylistics, comparative terminological studies, computer-assisted translation (machine translation), documentation, etc. While aimed particularly at translators, interpreters and terminologists, the publication addresses everyone interested in language phenomena.
Studies in Translation
Aims to promote research on all types of translation, whether written or oral, including activities such as literary, legal & political transaction as well as various forms of oral interpreting, subtitling, sign language interpreting & court interpreting.
Target: International Journal of Translation Studies
Target promotes the scholarly study of translational phenomena from any part of the world and is of an interdisciplinary nature. The journal's focus is on research on the theory, history, culture and sociology of translation and on the description and pedagogy that underpin and interact with these foci.
Translation and Literature
Translation and Literature is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on English Literature in its foreign relations. It embraces responses to all other literatures in the work of English writers, including reception of classical texts; historical and contemporary translation of works in modern languages; history and theory of literary translation, adaptation, and imitation.
Translation Review
The Translation Review focuses on the visibility of the literary translator through interviews with translators, the reconstruction of the translation process, translation as cross-cultural communication, the anthropological dimensions of translation, the history of translation, the critical and scholarly investigation of translation, the evaluation of translations, and translation as a creative act.
Translation Studies
This journal explores promising lines of work within the discipline of Translation Studies, placing a special emphasis on existing connections with neighbouring disciplines and the creation of new links. Translation Studies aims to extend the methodologies, areas of interest and conceptual frameworks inside the discipline, while testing the traditional boundaries of the notion of “translation” and offering a forum for debate focusing on historical, social, institutional and cultural facets of translation.
The Translator
The Translator is a refereed international journal that publishes articles on a variety of issues related to translation and interpreting as acts of intercultural communication. It puts equal emphasis on rigour and readability and is not restricted in scope to any particular school of thought or academic group.
TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction
TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction is a translation studies journal devoted to translation, terminology, writing and all related disciplines that facilitate the study of texts and the changes made to them. TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction was created to meet the pressing need of the young discipline of translation studies to be autonomous and thereby make possible translation research efforts within a culturally-based textual framework.

Online Open Access Journals and Magazines

1611: Revista de Historia de la Traducción
Languages: Catalan, Spanish, English
Keywords: translation studies, translation history, literature, Hispanic cultures
Mutatis Mutandis : Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción
Language: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese
Keywords: translation studies, translation practice, translating and interpreting
Pandaemonium Germanicum : Revista de Estudos Germanísticos
Language: Portuguese, German
Keywords: linguistics, translation studies, German language, German literature, German studies
Words without Borders
Words without Borders translates, publishes, and promotes the finest contemporary international literature.
eXchanges
eXchanges is the University of Iowa’s literary e-journal devoted to translation both in and out of the English language. We aim to foster cultural interchange and expand awareness of translation as a valid art form. Publishing the source text alongside its translation, we also highlight the symbiotic nature of the process.
Translation & Interpreting
Translation & Interpreting is a refereed international journal that seeks to create a cross-fertilization between research, training and professional practice.
New Voices in Translation Studies
New Voices in Translation Studies is a refereed electronic journal. The aim of the journal is to disseminate high quality original work by new researchers in Translation Studies to a wide audience. Articles are published in New Voices as soon as they are ready and are organized in annual issues, with occasional special editions.