Draft:Rainer Schulte

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| name = Rainer Schulte

| image = Rainer Schulte.jpg

| birth_date = July 8, 1937

| birth_place = Simmern, Germany

| education = Musikhochschule, Darmstadt, Germany (1959)

Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (MA, 1962)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (PhD, 1965)

| occupation = Literary translator, scholar, poet

| employer = Ohio University (1965-1975)

University of Texas at Dallas (1975-present)

}}

Rainer Schulte (b. July 8, 1937) is a German American literary translator, scholar, poet, and classical pianist. Schulte translates from the German, French, and Spanish.{{Cite web |date=2010-01-24 |title=Founding director of the Center for Translation Studies at the UT-Dallas has a way with words |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2010/01/24/founding-director-of-the-center-for-translation-studies-at-the-ut-dallas-has-a-way-with-words/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Dallas News |language=en}} In 1978, Schulte founded and became the director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). That same year he co-founded the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and founded and assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of Translation Review.

Schulte is a specialist in comparative literature, contemporary international literature, translation studies, the practice and theory of literary translation, 20^th-century Latin American and European literature, poetry writing, and interdisciplinary studies in the arts and humanities and technology.

Education

Schulte studied for a masterclass in piano at Musikhochschule in Darmstadt, Germany. He went on to earn a Master of Arts in English, romance languages, and philosophy from the Johannes University Gutenberg Mainz, Germany in 1962 and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in 1965{{Cite web |title=Schulte mss., 1967-1992 |url=https://archives.iu.edu/html/InU-Li-VAD7008.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=archives.iu.edu}}.

Career

Schulte joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas in 1975, after having spent 10 years on the faculty of Ohio University, where he founded the journal Mundus Artium: A Journal of International Literature and the Arts in 1967{{Cite web |title=Founder's Profile |url=https://mundusartiumpress.us/founder/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=MUNDUS ARTIUM PRESS |language=en-US}}. He was one of the earliest advocates of literary translation studies in academia and founded the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1978 to evolve the paradigm for teaching literature and translation studies. In 2023, a UTD alumnus made a notable donation to name the center The Rainer Schulte Center for Translation Studies in honor of its founder{{Cite web |title=Translation Studies Center Named in Honor of Dr. Rainer Schulte - News Center {{!}} The University of Texas at Dallas |url=https://news.utdallas.edu/philanthropy/translation-studies-center-naming-2023/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=news.utdallas.edu |language=en-US}}. In 1978, Schulte also co-founded the American Literary Translator’s Association (ALTA), which was housed at UTD until 2014, and became the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of Translation Review, a journal dedicated to the critical and scholarly aspects of translation studies{{Cite web |title=Learn about Translation Review |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/utrv20/about-this-journal |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=Taylor & Francis |language=en}}. A number of special issues of Translation Review related to Schulte's specialties have been published throughout the years: [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/8/1?nav=tocList A Look at German Literature in Translation], vol. 8 (1982); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/32-33/1?nav=tocList Poetry in Translation], vols. 32-33 (1990); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/77-78/1?nav=tocList Special Latin American Issue], vols. 77-78 (2009); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/81/1?nav=tocList Special Nueva York Issue], vol. 81 (2011); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/83/1?nav=tocList Special Section: The Future of Translation], vol. 83 (2012); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/95/1?nav=tocList Contemporary Transnational Literature], vol. 95 (2016); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/112/1?nav=tocList Retrospective: 1978–2014], vol. 112 (2022); [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utrv20/115/1?nav=tocList Translation as Community], vol. 115 (2023).

Throughout his career, Schulte has made it his mission to promote and foster literary translation in the United States. He also worked diligently to improve the standing of literary translation and literary translators in academia. His monograph, Traveling Between Languages: The Geography of Translation and Interpretation, demonstrates how translation methodologies can promote the reading of literary texts and encourage interdisciplinary thinking. In 2021 he published The Center for Translation Studies: A History and the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA): A History, 1978–2014.

Selected Works

Schulte’s publications include several books of poetry, translation criticism, literary translations, and numerous essays and scholarly articles on contemporary international writers and the application of translation methodologies to the interpretation of literary and humanistic texts.

= Translations =

Schulte, Rainer, and Michael Bullock, trans. Selected Poems. Yvan Goll. Mundus Artium Press, 1981.

ISBN-13: 9780939378029

= Antho{{Infobox}}logies and Edited Books =

Schulte, Rainer, ed. Comparative Perspectives: Anthology of Multiple Translations. American Heritage Custom Publishing Group, 1994. ISBN-13: 9780828106443

Schulte, Rainer, ed. Contemporary Writing from the Continents. Ohio University Press, 1981.

ISBN-13: 9780821406564

Schulte, Rainer, and John Biguenet, eds. The Craft of Translation. University of Chicago Press, 1989.

ISBN-13: 9780226048680

Schulte, Rainer, and John Biguenet, eds. Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

ISBN-13: 9780226048703

Schulte, Rainer, and Edward Bell Mitchell, eds. Continental Short Stories: The Modern Tradition, Norton, 1968.

ISBN-13: 9780393097979

Schulte, Rainer, and Quincy Troupe, eds. Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writings. Random House, 1975.

ISBN-13: 9780394488004

= Original Works =

Schulte, Rainer. American Literary Translators Association: A History, 1978–2014. The University of Texas at Dallas, 2021.

ISBN-13: 9781792370847

Schulte, Rainer. The Center for Translation Studies: A History. The University of Texas at Dallas, 2021.

ISBN-13: 9781792363665

Schulte, Rainer. The Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling Between Languages. Mellen Press, 2002.

ISBN-13: 9780773472716

Schulte, Rainer. A Language Without Geography. Mellen Poetry Press, 1999.

ISBN-13: 9780773430839

Schulte, Rainer. The Other Side of the Word. Texas Center for Writers Press, 1978.

ISBN-13: 9780916092078

Schulte, Rainer. The Suicide at the Piano. Sono Nis Press, 1969.

Awards and Grants

Fulbright Scholarship, 1958-59.

NEH Pilot Grant, 1979-1980.

NEH Implementation Grant, 1982-1985.

NEA Grants, 1980, 1984-1985, 1985-1986, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998-2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

Linda Gaboriau Translation Award, 2009.{{Cite web |title=Prof Lauded for Work in Translation Studies - News Center {{!}} The University of Texas at Dallas |url=https://news.utdallas.edu/faculty-staff/prof-lauded-for-work-in-translation-studies/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=news.utdallas.edu |language=en-US}}

National Endowment for the Arts Grant to support the Center of Translation Studies, 2010.{{Cite web |title=NEA Grant Supports Translation Center's Mission - News Center {{!}} The University of Texas at Dallas |url=https://news.utdallas.edu/faculty-staff/nea-grant-supports-translation-centers-mission/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=news.utdallas.edu |language=en-US}}