Magda Heydel is associate professor and the head of the Centre for Translation Studies at the Faculty of Polish, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She is editor in chief of Przekładaniec. A Journal of Translation Studies. Her work is mainly in literary translation and translation history. She is also a literary translator from English into Polish.

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Charles I. Armstrong is a professor of English literature at the University of Agder (Norway). He is the academic co-director of the Yeats International Summer School, the vice president of the International Yeats Society, and the president of the Nordic Association of English Studies. He is the author of three monographs and a co-editor of five essay collections, as well as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.

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Maite Fernández studied Translation and Interpreting at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and did an MA in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick (UK). She has worked as a translator for various international organisations, mostly within the United Nations system. As a literary translator, she has mainly translated classics (Guy de Maupassant, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin). In addition to articles on translation, she has published some of her own texts in various journals.

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Győző Ferencz is professor emeritus of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Between 1983 and 2020 he taught Irish and English literature at the Department of English Studies. He is also a critic, literary historian and editor.

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Zsuzsa Csikai is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures, Institute of English Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary. She completed her PhD on translations and adaptations of Chekhov’s plays by contemporary Irish playwrights and has published articles on related topics in Hungarian and international publications (e. g. Irish Studies Review; Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage; ‘Alive in Time’: The Enduring Drama Of Tom Murphy).

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Selen Aktari-Sevgi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, the director of the MA program in American Culture and Literature and of the Centre for Irish Studies in Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

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Naoko Toraiwa read English at Waseda University (B.A.1976), University of Tokyo (M.A. on Virginia Woolf, 1986) and Sussex University (Ph.D. 2005 on Medbh McGuckian). She has been publishing articles on contemporary Irish writings, including Deirdre Madden, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon and Sinéad Morrissey. She teaches at Meiji University in Tokyo and she was the president of IASIL Japan (2015-2018).

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Neil Murphy is Professor of English at NTU, Singapore. His primary research interests include contemporary Irish and world fiction, as well as the relationship between the visual arts and literature. He is the editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010). He has co-edited (with Keith Hopper) a special Flann O’Brien centenary issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction (2011) and The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013).

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Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos is a faculty member in the Postgraduate Programme in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina/UFSC, a member of the Irish Studies research cluster at UFSC, and an executive member of IASIL. She is a former Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at NUI Galway and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Institute at UCD with the project “Physical Disability in Irish Theatre: Translation and Performance in Brazil”.

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Sonja Kitanovska-Kimovska is a translator and Associate Professor of English and Translation at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Ss Cyril and Methodius University (UKIM) in Skopje.

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