Rainer Schulte, 1937-, was born in Simmern, Germany, on 8 July 1937. He studied philosophy and music at the University of Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, and completed a masterclass in piano at the Music Academy in Darmstadt. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the 1958-1959 academic year. Schulte completed his M.A. in English, romance languages, and philosophy at the University of Mainz in 1962 and his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Michigan in 1965. He taught comparative literature at Ohio University from 1965 to 1975 and joined the literature and humanities faculty at the University of Texas-Dallas in 1975. Schulte has translated poems from German, French, and Spanish and was the editor of Mundus Artium: A Journal of International Literature and the Arts from 1967 to 1987. He is currently the editor of Translation Review and is director of The Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas-Dallas.