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July 2026 Issue

In the July issue, four scholar-translators—Sibelan Forrester, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Jess Jensen Mitchell, and Russell Scott Valentino—discuss the tensions and rewards of moving between scholarship and literary translation. Zachary Hoffman reflects on leaving the academic job market for secondary school teaching. Margaret Samu interviews Karla Huebner, this issue's SHERA Member Spotlight, about her path to studying the Czech avant-garde alongside her career as a novelist. Nikolas Weyland recaps a Polish Studies Association roundtable on innovative approaches to teaching Polish history.

ASEEES introduces two new initiatives: the ASEEES Cohort Project, a yearlong program for first- and second-year doctoral students, and the ASEEES Syllabus Bank, a new repository of syllabi from across the field. ASEEES also announces the 2026 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award honoree along with the 2026 Dissertation Research Grant and Summer Dissertation Writing Grant Recipients. Read on for information about the 2026 Annual Convention, the candidates in the 2026 Board Elections, a call for ASEEES Committee volunteers—and more!

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Articles in This Issue

July 15, 2026

Tension and Symbiosis: A Roundtable Interview with Scholar-Translators

By ASEEES NewsNet

Whether a full-time career, a side gig, a research area, or an occasion for gathering, translation has been central to our field.
July 15, 2026

“Failing” into Fulfillment: A Journey to and from Academia

By Zachary Hoffman

"By the time I earned my doctorate, imagining myself professionally as anything other than a professor felt tantamount to failing. The path to professordom seemed difficult, but surely I’d be one of the ones who made it."
July 15, 2026

SHERA Member Spotlight: Karla Huebner

By ASEEES NewsNet

"SHERA and ASEEES have been a great help in keeping me connected to the wider intellectual world during my years of teaching undergraduates the basics of Western art history."
July 15, 2026

From the Margins to the Center: Innovative Pedagogical Approaches in Polish Studies

By Nikolas Weyland

Teaching roundtables can play a crucial role in stimulating dialogue about shifting scholarly frameworks of analysis, the absorption of newer academic literature into various disciplinary fields, and the structuring of productive intellectual debate.