New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
About the Book Series
The aim of New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies is to publish significant and broadly relevant new books which will make an impact on the development of the discipline. Titles in the series address contemporary themes and issues that reflect the changing nature of translation and interpreting studies today. With an emphasis on innovative and accessible writing, books in the series are key reading for both students and researchers in Translation and Interpreting Studies.
The Poetics of Self-translation
1st Edition
By Rainier Grutman
July 15, 2026
The Poetics of Self-translation explores the well-attested phenomenon of writers translating part of their own work, underscoring its growing significance in the history of translation and literature. Drawing on established literary and translation research, this book reveals its underlying logic, ...
Derrida Translating: Reconceptualising Literary and Philosophical Translation
1st Edition
By Kathryn Batchelor
May 21, 2026
For decades, Translation Studies has struggled to engage with Jacques Derrida, whose radical questioning of language seemed to undermine translation theory's foundations. This book reveals a hidden dimension: Derrida's obsessive engagement with translation throughout his career. The text uncovers ...
Translation and Race
1st Edition
By Corine Tachtiris
February 06, 2024
Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice. This book explores the "unbearable whiteness of translation" in the West that excludes scholars and translators of color from the...
Translation as Social Justice: Translation Policies and Practices in Non-Governmental Organisations
1st Edition
By Wine Tesseur
September 30, 2022
This book analyses the translation policies and practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), engaging in critical questions around the ways in which translation can redress power dynamics between INGOs and the people they work with, and the role of activist researchers in ...
Time, Space, Matter in Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Beattie, Simona Bertacco, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe
September 28, 2022
Time, Space, Matter in Translation considers time, space, and materiality as legitimate habitats of translation. By offering a linked series of interdisciplinary case studies that show translation in action beyond languages and texts, this book provides a capacious and innovative understanding...
Translation and Transmigration
1st Edition
By Siri Nergaard
December 30, 2020
In our globalized and transcultural world it has become more common than ever to live among different languages, to cross geographical and cultural borders frequently, to negotiate between multiple spaces and loyalties: from global businesspeople to guest workers, from tourists to refugees. In this...
Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire
1st Edition
By Brian James Baer
July 22, 2020
This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of queer theory, this book places queer theory and Translation Studies in a productive and ...
Translation Sites: A Field Guide
1st Edition
By Sherry Simon
July 09, 2019
In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life. This field guide is an invitation to explore hotels, markets, museums, checkpoints, gardens, bridges, towers and streets as sites of translation. These are spaces whose ...
Translation and Translanguaging
1st Edition
By Mike Baynham, Tong King Lee
June 20, 2019
Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging tell us about translation and what can translation tell us about translanguaging? Translanguaging originated as...
Translation and World Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Bassnett
August 09, 2018
Translation and World Literature offers a variety of international perspectives on the complex role of translation in the dissemination of literatures around the world. Eleven chapters written by multilingual scholars explore issues and themes as diverse as the geopolitics of translation, ...
Fictional Translators: Rethinking Translation through Literature
1st Edition
By Rosemary Arrojo
August 23, 2017
Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations. Rosemary Arrojo shines a light on the transformative character of the translator’s role and ...
Translation and Migration
1st Edition
By Moira Inghilleri
January 06, 2017
Translation and Migration examines the ways in which the presence or absence of translation in situations of migratory movement has currently and historically shaped social, cultural and economic relations between groups and individuals. Acts of cultural and linguistic translation are discussed ...