Dalkey Press relocates to Rochester

ne of the most prestigious independent publishers of international literature and translations will call Rochester its new home beginning this January.

“We are delighted that Dalkey Archive Press, the premier press in literary translation, has chosen to join us at the University,” says Peter Lennie, the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. “Its presence on campus will help energize exciting new programs and will offer rich opportunities—particularly those focused on literary translation—to connect scholarship and professional experience.”

The press promises to be a invaluable resource for Rochester students, providing unique access to publishers, editors, and other professionals in literary fields. Students will have opportunities for varied professional experience, especially focused on translation, including surveying and reporting on potential books for translation, working with foreign publishers and agents, and doing a book-length translation. Besides opportunities in translation, a variety of internships with the press also will be available to interested undergraduate and graduate students.

The local arts community also stands to benefit, says novelist Joanna Scott, a MacArthur Fellow and Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English. “Dalkey Archive is a haven for the best of modern and contemporary world literature, a small press with a huge impact, and its presence here will help draw international attention to Rochester’s thriving literary culture.” Dalkey Archive Press, currently located in Normal, Ill., releases 30 titles a year that are carried in 2,000 bookstores and libraries in the United States and Canada.