Translation and Intercultural Studies
We attract the very best talent and our staff are both international and internationally recognised.
Our inspiring academics can give our students first-hand access to cutting-edge research and real-world knowledge to take with them outside their studies.
Find out more about the people that make up our Translation and Intercultural Studies department.
Teaching staff
Lecturer in Translation Studies with Chinese
Specialisms: translation pedagogy; literary translation; institutional translation; translation history; dialogue interpreting; Confucianism.
Lecturer in Intercultural Communication
Specialisms: urban multilingualism; sociolinguistics; heritage language maintenance; language policy; ethnographic methodologies.
Lecturer in Translation Studies
Specialisms: translation theory; audiovisual translation; corpus-based methodologies; citizen media; medical humanities.
Dr Bei Ju
Lecturer in Intercultural Communication (from 1 January 2023)
Specialisms: research on social media, migration and adaptation; females, technology and development; new media and intercultural communication.
Dr Sheena Kalayil
Lecturer in Intercultural Communication
Specialisms: multilingualism; heritage languages; diasporic identities; conversation analysis; narrative enquiry; migration narratives; literary representations of migrants.
Professor of Translation Studies
Specialisms: sociology of translation; translation technologies; scientific translation; corpus-based translation studies; translation history.
Lecturer in Intercultural Communication
Specialisms: intercultural awareness; leadership in multicultural teams; identity construction; media and political communication.
Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Specialisms: translation theory; power and translation; book history; literary translation.
Lecturer in Translation Studies
Specialisms: literary translation, multilingual writing, comparative literature
Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation Studies
Specialisms: third sector language provisions; interpreter-mediated police interviews; urban multilingualism; interpreting and translation in the history of humanitarianism.
Honorary and Emeritus staff
Dr Siobhan Brownlie
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Intercultural Studies
Dr Ebru Diriker
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting
Prof. Theo Hermans
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting
Dr Christopher Rundle
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting
Prof. Myriam Salama-Carr
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting