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.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Murakami Haruki’s Translators: Towards a Translator-Centred Model of Literary Circulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Motoko Akashi, Cristina Barroso, Andrea Bergantino, James Luke Hadley
December 29, 2026
This volume shifts attention from the global reception of world-famous author, MURAKAMI Haruki’s works, to the translators whose labour enables its circulation. Moving beyond established discussions of literary style, market success, and readership, the book foregrounds the often-overlooked role of...
Translation, Exile and Human Rights: Alicia Partnoy and the Politics of Feminist Solidarity
1st Edition
By María Laura Spoturno
December 14, 2026
This book explores translational activism as intertwined with the experience of exile and human rights advocacy, shining light on the Argentinian poet and activist Alicia Partnoy and her use of translation toward social justice. Spoturno builds on the notion of translation as foundational to ...
Alternative Translation: Children’s Literature, Comics and Digital Media
1st Edition
By Michał Borodo, Dominic Cheetham, Paula Martínez Sirés
December 11, 2026
Focusing on children’s literature, comics, and digital media, this book explores alternative forms of translation, which differ from the more traditional approaches and practices in these fields and from the predominant conceptualizations of translation. Alternative translation has been selected as...
Translating Children’s Literature into Arabic: Narratives and Frames in Kāmil Kīlānī’s Children’s Library
1st Edition
By Amal Abdul-Aziz Ayoub, Ahmed Saleh Elimam
November 30, 2026
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the development of the translation of children’s literature into Arabic, providing unique insights into the prominent role of Kāmīl Kīlānī in shaping its history as well as for the translation of children’s literature more broadly. The volume surveys ...
Literary Translation in Peripheral Contexts: How Foreignness Enters the World
1st Edition
By Hunam Yun
November 27, 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 ...
Ruins as Translation Sites: Sensing Portions of Past Futures
1st Edition
By Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
November 18, 2026
Expanding on the growing body of work that approaches translation beyond language from an interdisciplinary perspective, this innovative book explores ruins as sites of translation. In Ruins as Translation Sites: Sensing Portions of Past Futures, Vidal examines ruins as portions of past ...
Translation and Philosophy: Truth, Scepticism, Choices
1st Edition
By Mariana Dimópulos
November 10, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of translation and its concern with the problem of truth across the work of nine authors. The volume is grounded in the idea of the philosophy of translation as the philosophical discourse about translation written within the European and...
Lawyering Across Languages: The Dynamics of Lawyer Interpreter Collaboration in Legal Interviews
1st Edition
By Han Xu
October 13, 2026
This book offers a holistic view of the complex dynamics of interpreter-facilitated legal interviews, elucidating insights into challenges and opportunities for effective communication in legal settings in today’s multilingual world. The volume sheds light on an underexplored area of research at ...
The World Within Reach: Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1550–1700
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By Theo Hermans
September 23, 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 ...
Exploring Translation (Un)Awareness: Recognizing the Role of Translation in Society
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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
Edited
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 ...