Deep Vellum Partners with Johns Hopkins University
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI) at Johns Hopkins and Dallas-based publisher Deep Vellum have partnered on a new initiative focusing on the art of translation.
Beginning this year, the AGHI will support the production, publication, and promotion of one work of literary translation annually at Deep Vellum with a sustaining grant, a translator residency, and public events on the Johns Hopkins campus in Baltimore. The first book in this partnership is Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz, translated from the German by Max Lawton; the title had originally been supported by an NEA grant that was terminated by the Trump administration in early May.
“Deep Vellum is committed to publishing the sort of boundary-pushing, international work that humanistic scholars teach and analyze, and the AGHI is committed to fostering big conversations across the academic and public spheres,” Jeanne-Marie Jackson, director of the AGHI, said in a statement. “In that sense we've been partners for years, and it's truly gratifying to make our shared mission official.”
