With the current global situation ensuring that the spiralling price of oil has once again returned to the headlines, Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere presents a timely analysis of literary and cultural responses to the petroleum phenomenon. Indeed, the discovery and exploitation of oil and natural gas reserves have…[Read more]

For many new PhD holders, the first few weeks, months, and years after the doctoral defence can represent a time of new opportunities, horizons, and adventures. Yet other aspects of the whole experience can also bring certain challenges, and the potential difficulties facing early-career researchers are well-known. Indeed, the general uncertainty…[Read more]

In these uncertain times of conflict, issues of sociocultural, linguistic, and ethnonational identity have naturally come to the fore. Accordingly, Simon Gwyn Roberts’s wide-ranging study of minority languages and their speakers is a timely contribution to broader studies of the intersection of major/minor linguistic identities with geography a…[Read more]

Book review of Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take A Chance On You by Suneel Gupta with Carlye Adler

Over the past few years, research in translation studies has paid increasing attention to the importance of the human factor within the broader translation and interpreting professions. Among other things, this so-called sociological turn has led to greater scholarly focus on translators and interpreters as practitioners. In focusing solely on…[Read more]

In this post, Antony Hoyte-West outlines an important but often-overlooked aspect of multilingual conferences… the interpreters!