Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of translation studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
Exploring Translation (Un)Awareness: Recognizing the Role of Translation in Society
1st Edition
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By Tanya Escudero, Päivi Sinikka Kuusi, Tuija Talvikki Kinnunen
September 10, 2026
This collection proposes the notion of “translation awareness,” bringing together insights from different sectors to lend greater awareness to the nature, role, and effects of translation in contemporary societal life. The book sets out translation awareness as a unifying term around recognition by...
A New Materialist Theory of Translation: Negotiating More-than-Human Co-Existence
1st Edition
By Matt Valler
September 07, 2026
This book proposes a New Materialist theory of translation, redefining translation as a negotiation of agency to address the urgent challenges of co-existence in the Anthropocene. In the face of increased migration, runaway climate change, and accelerating AI it takes an innovative ...
The Translator’s Visibility: New Debates and Epistemologies
1st Edition
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By Larisa Cercel, Alice Leal
August 27, 2026
This collection illuminates the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of Lawrence Venuti’s seminal The Translator’s Invisibility, extending these conversations through a contemporary lens of epistemic justice while also exploring its manifestations and transposing it to different ...
Translation on Display: Multilingual Texts in Multimodal Museum Space
1st Edition
By Min-Hsiu Liao
August 27, 2026
This book foregrounds the role of translated texts in the study of the assemblages of semiotics resources in museums, important cultural institutions which encompass such sites as exhibition spaces, galleries, heritage sites, castles, and memorials. The book is organised in order of units of space,...
Translation, Pornography, Performativity: Experimenting with That Dangerous Supplement
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson, Xiaorui Sun
July 20, 2026
Robinson and Sun’s book goes in search of the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation) from Jacques Derrida to Judith Butler. In his 1684 “Essay on Translated Verse,” the Earl of Roscommon attacked “want of ...
Translation in the Performing Arts: Embodiment, Materiality, and Inclusion
1st Edition
Edited
By Enza De Francisci, Cristina Marinetti
July 19, 2026
This innovative collection showcases the interconnectedness of translation and the performing arts, drawing on examples spanning languages, eras, and modes of performance to argue for the importance of re-envisioning translation beyond writing. Featuring contributions from established and emerging ...
Perspectives on Technology and Interpreting: Advances in Automation and Artificial Intelligence
1st Edition
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By Gloria Corpas Pastor, Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero
July 01, 2026
This volume provides a timely and authoritative account of how digital innovation, automation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping interpreting. Once considered a peripheral aid, technology now stands at the centre of professional practice, influencing how interpreters prepare, perform, and ...
Reimagining Conference Interpreting in the Age of AI
1st Edition
By Ozum Arzik-Erzurumlu
May 26, 2026
Employing a sociological lens and and building on data from interviews with 26 freelance conference interpreters and two focus groups, this book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of freelance conference interpreters’ experiences working in remote interpreting contexts during the ...
Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake: Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
May 22, 2026
Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake. Robinson’s engagement with translational aspects of Finnegans Wake provides rich and useful insights into experimental ...
Mapping Crowdsourcing Translation in China: A Multidimensional Assessment of Yeeyan
1st Edition
By Jun Yang
May 22, 2026
Yang explores the use of crowdsourcing in translation within the Chinese context, focusing on Yeeyan – the largest online translation community in China. As one of the world’s largest markets for language content consumption, China experiences significant demand for translation services. Yeeyan, a ...
Mapping the Research Landscape of Interpreter and Translator Education: Current Themes and Future Directions
1st Edition
By Xiangdong Li
May 22, 2026
Mapping the Research Landscape of Interpreter and Translator Education explores research themes in interpreter and translator education based on a systematic review of more than 20 years of research in the field. The book focuses on the ten research themes on the chain of curriculum ...
A Bergsonian Approach to Translation and Time: Toward Spiritual Translation Studies
1st Edition
By Salah Basalamah
May 21, 2026
This innovative book offers a systematic conceptual exploration of translation through the lens of time, challenging the traditional notion of translation as mere linguistic transfer and advancing a new research agenda within the philosophy of translation. The volume sets the stage by establishing ...