Biografisk notat

Jun Pan works as Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Arts, and Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her other roles include managing editor of Bandung: Journal of the Global South (Brill) and review editor of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (Taylor & Francis). She is also President of the Hong Kong Translators Society. Dr. Pan’s research interests lie in corpus-based interpreting/translation studies, political discourse and translation/interpreting, learner factors in interpreter training, and professionalism in interpreting. Her works are published in journals including Babel, Target, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Perspectives, etc, and in volumes of Routledge, Springer, Peter Lang, etc. She developed the Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC).

Sandra Louise Halverson is Professor of Translation and Professional Communication at the University of Agder in Norway. Her research has centered on questions related to various areas of Translation Studies and Cognitive Linguistics, and she has published both empirical and theoretical/conceptual work in key translation and interpreting journals, e.g. Target, Across Languages and Cultures, and Meta and in central anthologies and encyclopaedias. Other long-term research interests are the epistemology of Translation Studies and research methodology, and recent publications have also dealt with issues of this type. Professor Halverson is a member of the Translation Research, Empiricism and Cognition network (TREC). Apart from having worked as co-editor of Target for a period of eight years, she also serves on the editorial boards of Hermes, MonTI, and the Journal of Translation Studies in Africa. She was appointed CETRA Chair Professor for 2018.

Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Bradford in 1998. His specialisms are linguistic translation theories, discourse analysis (including systemic functional linguistics), ideology and translation, and Latin American literature in translation. He is author of Introducing Translation Studies (5th edition, Routledge, 2022) and Evaluation in Translation: A Study of Critical Points in Translator Decision-making (Routledge, 2012).