This article presents an overview of the place of literary studies in modern academic discourse and the cruciality of their proper translation, which provides an in-depth dialogue between experts that come from different cultures and nationalities. Having analyzed the translation of Joann Feit Diehl’s article, we can conclude that, in order to fulfil the communicative function of any textual work, translators must take in account numerous idiosyncrasies of literary studies as a separate scientific genre of text, as well as skillfully and appropriately employ translational transformations.