Dr. Wencke Orbán is a qualified translator with in-depth language proficiency in German, English, and Spanish and extensive professional experience in translating texts from various fields – ranging from literature and arts to medicine and economics – as well as in teaching linguistics and translation science in academia. She is a lecturer at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting of Heidelberg University and in-house translator at the University of Mannheim.

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Regina Rawlinson M.A. is a professional Literary Translator, with more than 100 translations to her name. She translates from English into German and has won numerous awards and grants for her work, most recently, in 2020, the Barthold-Heinrich-Brockes-Stipendium of Deutscher Übersetzerfonds e.V. (DÜF). She also works as a part-time lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.

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Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French and Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation in Trinity College Dublin.

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Maria Elena Gherdan teaches Applied Linguistics disciplines, British Culture and Discourse analysis at the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania. Being a certified literary translator herself and having considerable experience of teaching English to different age groups, her academic role also includes training philology students in literary and non-literary translations, helping them explore the specificities of the translation of various genres.

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Margarita Estévez-Saá is Senior Lecturer of English and American Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Her research interests include the work of James Joyce and, more recently, contemporary Irish fiction by women.

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Haruko Takakuwa (MA, PhD) is Associate Professor of English at Ochanomizu University, Japan. Her main interests are in early-nineteenth-century domestic novels and national tales. She has published various articles on Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Susan Ferrier, and Jane Austen in English and Japanese. She is also interested in adaptation studies and “Pride and Prejudice as Angels’ Ladder: Jane Austen’s Novel Becomes Takarazuka Musical Theater” was published in Persuasions On-Line 36.1 (2015).

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Marija Zlatnar Moe is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She teaches general translation courses from English into Slovene at the BA level, and literary translation and translation for arts and humanities at the MA level, as well as English-Slovene contrastive cultural studies.

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Cristina Nicolae is Senior lecturer, PhD at G.E.Palade UMPhST of Targu Mures, Romania, where she teaches British and American literature (special emphasis on the architecture of identity), translation studies (with a focus on AVT), and communication techniques.

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Kartini Anwar is a lecturer in the Malay Language Division of the Asian Languages & Cultures Academic Group, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She teaches subjects on Malay literature such as Classical and Modern Literature, Indonesian Literature, Children’s and Adolescent’s Literature, Literary Criticism, Dramatization of Literary Texts, The Teaching of Literature. She presented a number of academic papers at regional and international conferences.

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Zofia Ziemann teaches translation at the Centre for Translation Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. She is also a freelance translator, interpreter, and editor working in Polish and English. Her main research area is translation history, particularly literary retranslation and translation reception. She is the managing editor of Przekładaniec. A Journal of Translation Studies.

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