Letting the System Completely Absorb Me Would Be So Much Easier

SchwarzRund is a Black Dominican queer femme feminist, active in intersectional education, Black German publishing and spoken word, empowerment around Fatness, Blackness, Queerness, and allyship, and critical media research. In this interview, SchwarzRund speaks about the German publishing world, the role of Black queer presses, the importance of translation and multilingualism in Black German literature, and her experiences in academia at a predominantly white institution, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. These observations are often threaded through the lens of her 2016 novel Biskaya, its three main characters Tue, Matthew, and Dwayne, and the various responses to the novel in Germany. SchwarzRund’s novel Biskaya: An Afropolitan Novel debuted to critical acclaim with zaglossus verlag in 2016. As the novel revolves around various forms of artistic production—music, visual art, poetry, etc.—SchwarzRund’s reflections on the novel are also always reflections on the German arts and publishing world in some important way. The interview took place in September 2019, and there was so much laughter throughout that we had to edit most of it out to save space. The German-language original of this interview appears in William Collins Donahue & Martin Kagel’s essay collection, Die große Mischkalkulation. Institutions, Social Import, and Market Forces in the German Literary Field. Fink, 2020

Supralingualism and the Translatability Industry

2019, peer reviewed. “Supralingualism and the Translatability Industry.” Applied Linguistics, special issue on Translating Culture, edited by Zhu Hua and Claire Kramsch, 1–20

Contact linguistics and literary studies

Part of the multi-volume work Language Contact Volume 45/1 in the series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) https://doi.org/10.1515/978311043535

Back by Inscrutable Demand: Ali Itır’s Multilingual Return in Berlin Savignyplatz

2020. “Back by Inscrutable Demand: Ali Itır’s Multilingual Return in Berlin Savignyplatz.” Monatshefte. November

The Affront of Untranslatability: Ten Scenarios

2018. “The Affront of Untranslatability: Ten Scenarios.” Untranslatability, edited by Duncan Large, Motoko Akashi, Wanda Józwikowska, Emily Rose. London: Routledge, 80–96

The Application Wor(l)d Quit Unexpectedly: Waterhouse and Worldedness

2020. “The Application Wor(l)d Quit Unexpectedly: Waterhouse and Worldedness.” In Darstellung als Umweg. Essays und Materialien zu Peter Waterhouse (Krieg und Welt), edited by Christine Ivanovic. Vienna/Münster/Zürich: LIT Verlag, 127–138

We Innovators

2018. “We Innovators.” In Sloganization in Language Education Discourse, edited by Barbara Schmenk, Stephan Breidbach, Lutz Küster. Multilingual Matters, 19–41

Is there a right to untranslatability? Asylum, evidence and the listening state

This article focuses on Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures, in order to understand the relationships among language, translation / interpreting, evidentiary assessment, and what we call the ‘listening state’. Legal systems have only recently begun to consider whether adjudicative processes ought to take place in multiple languages concurrently, or whether the ideal procedure is to monolingualize evidence first, and then assess it accordingly. Because of this ambivalence, asylum applicants are often left in the ‘zone of uncertainty’ between monolingualism and multilingualism. Their experiences and testimonies become subject to an ‘epistemic anxiety’ only infrequently seen in other areas of adjudication. We therefore ask whether asylum applicants ought to enjoy a ‘right to untranslatability’, taking account of the State's responsibility to cooperate actively with them or whether the burden ought to remain with the applicant to achieve credibility in the language of the respective jurisdiction, through interpretation and translation

Monitoring of Cure State through the Use of Microwaves

A method of manufacturing a tire is provided that includes curing the tire (10) in a curing press (12) and applying microwave energy at a given frequency band into the tire. The interaction between the microwave energy and the tire is monitored to obtain a complex reflection coefficient. A root-mean-squared error is calculated using the measured complex reflection coefficient and a reference reflection coefficient. The reference reflection coefficient is from a fully cured tire made from the same material as the tire. Continuous monitoring of the interaction takes place to obtain the complex reflection coefficient along with continuous calculation of the root-mean-squared error at different times during the curing of the tire in the curing press. The calculated root-mean-squared errors are used to determine whether to stop the curing of the tire in the curing press

Millimeter Wave SAR Imaging for the Detection of Porosity in Rubber Products

Manufacturers of rubber articles seek to control the porosity level after cure to a target level to deliver the desired characteristics. A nondestructive means to measure the porosity is desirable for efficiency. Wideband millimeter wave reflectometry measurements, along with a robust synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging algorithm, results in production of high-resolution 3D images capable of nondestructive inspection of such products using relatively compact instruments [1]-[2]. SAR imaging at millimeter wave frequencies has demonstrated great efficacy for detecting relatively large voids inside rubber composites mainly due to the high contrast (9 to 1) between rubber and air dielectric permittivities. To this end, several 1”-thick rubber blocks with small localized embedded porosities were inspected to investigate the efficacy of the method for porosity detection. Localized porosity was introduced by placing small Styrofoam pieces and water droplets between rubber layers prior to curing the block. The blocks were raster scanned at Ka-band (26.5 – 40 GHz) and V-band (50 – 75 GHz) frequencies to generate wideband raw data. The SAR algorithm produces 3D images using these wideband holographic data which is then can be displayed at a 2D slice at any depth within the object. A complete description of the technique and several imaging examples will be presented along with a discussion of the results