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.
Literary Translation in Peripheral Contexts: How Foreignness Enters the World
1st Edition
By Hunam Yun
October 13, 2026
Yun explores how foreign elements from peripheral cultures navigate translation landscapes dominated by fluency-focused approaches and examines diverse translation strategies, ranging from conventional fluency methods to counter-normative and cultural translation techniques, demonstrating how ...
The World Within Reach: Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1550–1700
1st Edition
By Theo Hermans
September 17, 2026
This book traces the history of translation in the Early Modern Low Countries (roughly the modern-day Netherlands and Belgium), from around 1550 to around 1700. It focuses on the various roles played by translation in different contexts. In the latter half of the sixteenth century translation ...
A New Materialist Theory of Translation: Negotiating More-than-Human Co-Existence
1st Edition
By Matt Valler
September 11, 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 ...
Perspectives on Technology and Interpreting: Advances in Automation and Artificial Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Gloria Corpas Pastor, Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero
July 14, 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 27, 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 ...
Self-Care, Translation Professionalization, and the Translator’s Ethical Agency: Ethics of Epimeleia Heautou
1st Edition
By Abderrahman Boukhaffa
May 22, 2026
This book draws on an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the impact of codes of ethics as prescribed in translator organizations, proposing alternative ethical pathways grounded in self-care ethics to enhance translators’ symbolic recognition and ethical agency. The volume seeks to provide a...
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 ...
Emerging Englishes: China English in Academic Writing
1st Edition
By Alex Baratta, Rui He, Paul Vincent Smith
May 21, 2026
This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at ‘China English’ through the academic writing of Chinese students at a British university. The volume seeks to blur the simplistic binary of ‘Chinglish’, a broad term often understood to...
Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake: Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
May 21, 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 21, 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 21, 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 ...
Metaphor Translation in Popular Science: From Minds to Languages
1st Edition
By Sui He
May 21, 2026
This book explores the intersection of metaphor studies and translation studies, specifically focusing on popular scientific articles. The volume complements existing work on conceptual metaphor theory in translation by aligning it with conceptual blending theory to demonstrate how an integrated ...