About the Journal

New Voices in Translation Studies

The following section gives you information about:

• The Origins and Commitments of the New Voices in Translation Studies
• The Review Process
• Contributors
• Languages other than English
• Guidelines for Reviewing Article Submissions
• Guidelines for Book Review Submissions
• Guidelines for Copyediting and Proofreading
• Outline of the Copyediting and Proofreading Processes
• Editor and Assistant Editor Profiles

Origins and Commitments

The editors of the first issue of New Voices in Translation Studies, which was published in 2005, set out the mission for the journal in their first editorial as follows:

“The idea of creating New Voices in Translation Studies came from the realisation that there are many enthusiastic new researchers, exploring interesting ideas and posing challenging questions, whose voices are not being heard. After attending a Postgraduate Symposium in Translation Studies held in May 2003 at Aston University and having organised the First DCU Postgraduate Conference in Translation Studies in March 2004, we (the first editorial team) also realised that these voices express themselves more confidently and fluently in a supportive environment.

However, we believe the voices of new researchers should be heard beyond the circle of their peers and reach more established circles which, we feel, are sometimes too engrossed in old battles, rehearsing well-known arguments that threaten to slow down the growth of what, a few years ago, was still called an emerging discipline.

The organizational structure of New Voices in Translation Studies has been designed in such a way as to ensure continuity but remain dynamic. The advisory panel is composed of equal numbers of new researchers and established academics and will be renewed regularly to ensure that an optimal balance is maintained. The editors will remain in position for a limited number of years, following which they will be replaced by new editors, and join the Editorial Board. The reviewing and editing process follows the model of international refereed journals, the only difference being that it involves new researchers, along with more experienced scholars, as editors and reviewers.

We understand the concepts of 'new' and 'established' in relation to 'researcher' not as two distinct and opposed categories but as degrees on a continuum reflecting the amount of experience gained by the researcher in the course of their career. Trying to establish concrete limits around each concept would not only be extremely difficult but also counter-productive, given that the aim of the journal is to bring the two extremes of the continuum closer rather than reinforce their differences.”

Looking through the 27 back issues published since 2005, we (the present editorial team) are proud that we have kept New Voices in Translation Studies alive and upheld these founding principles to the best of our ability, with a track record of one or two issues every year without significant interruptions. We are delighted to be taking the journal forward with the launch of this new OJS website hosted by Chulalongkorn University.

Although the journal’s nature and aims call for inclusiveness, it is our belief that this need not be at the expense of quality and rigour. In terms of writing style, our emphasis shall be on readability, and in terms of content, it shall be on well thought-out and novel contributions to the field. The journal’s scope will be broad in the sense that it will cover all areas within translation studies, understanding translation in its broadest sense – including, but not restricted to, human and computer-aided translation, machine translation, oral and sign language interpreting, dubbing and subtitling. The journal will not be restricted to any particular school of thought or methodology.

For all article submissions, please follow the link to our 2023 revised style guide: New Voices Style Guide 

 

Review Process

New Voices in Translation Studies publishes high quality, fully refereed articles which have gone through the processes of peer review and, where appropriate, such revision as is recommended by the reviewers. Articles submitted to New Voices will be reviewed by one new researcher and one established scholar, both of whom shall be members of the Advisory Panel. Alternatively other qualified researchers will be selected by the panel. Only whole articles will be reviewed - not abstracts or summaries. Theses, or parts of theses will also not be considered. Articles for review will be anonymised wherever possible. The comments provided to authors by the reviewers will be constructive and helpful and designed to aid authors in producing articles of a publishable standard.

Policy on Plagiarism and the Use of AI

New Voices in Translation Studies is committed to the principles of ethical publishing. We have a duty of care to our international and intercultural readership within the TIS community, to our parent organisations, IATIS and the Chulalongkorn University, but also to our own editorial team, to our reviewers and authors. Our internal and external peer-review processes are dedicated to ensuring a high standard of academic integrity in the content we publish.

In practical terms, this means that we seek to promote widely accepted standards of academic integrity regarding plagiarism and the misuse of Artificial Intelligence. Any content submitted to New Voices must be the author’s or authors’ own work, reflecting their own research activities. As is conventional in all scholarly contexts, any reliance on other human or artificial resources must be properly referenced. While AI may be used sparingly to achieve a polished academic style in English, authors must be accountable for detailed content, argument, structure and referencing. When submitting a manuscript to New Voices in Translation Studies, authors must disclose the use of generative AI in the writing process by adding a statement at the end of their article before the References list.

 

Contributors

In accordance with our aims, preference will be given to articles submitted by new researchers, although we may occasionally publish articles by more established scholars. We understand the concepts of 'new' and 'established' in relation to 'researcher' not as two distinct and opposed categories but as degrees in a continuum reflecting the amount of experience gained by the researcher in the course of their career. Any attempt to establish concrete limits around each concept would not only be extremely difficult but also counter-productive, given that the aim of the journal is to bring the two extremes of the continuum closer and not to reinforce their differences. However, for reasons of transparency and clarity, we have established a set of criteria to help us make decisions regarding the issue of who qualifies as a 'new researcher':

• Students who have finished a Masters degree and are planning to do a PhD
• Scholars who are currently doing their PhD
• PhD graduates who have submitted their thesis less than a year ago
• Practising translators who have only recently started doing research in Translation Studies
• Researchers who have no more than three publications in the field of Translation Studies and not more than one in a peer-reviewed journal

The above shall serve only as guidelines and not as strict rules. The editors shall reserve their right to make decisions according to the particularities of each case under consideration.

 

Languages other than English

The language of the journal will be English. However, in line with the IATIS's multilingual policy, we would like to encourage authors to submit the abstracts of their articles as well as PhD abstracts in another language in addition to English. If provided, the abstracts will not only be published in the journal but also will be contributed to the expanding TraduXio-IATIS Space, an online collaborative and multilingual translation tool set up by IATIS to create, store and share abstracts on academic conference papers and articles.

 

Guidelines for Reviewing Article Submissions

The nature and aims of New Voices call for inclusiveness; however, it is our belief that this need not be at the expense of quality and rigour. Therefore, we ask our reviewers to be thorough and strict in accordance with the journal’s standard.

Your review should help the authors to improve their papers, or, where publication is not recommended, show ways of improvement for future efforts. Please word your comments in an encouraging and supportive way and be as constructive and as detailed as possible. Be concrete and specify enough so that both the author and the editors have a clear sense of how you would like the paper changed.

The editors will not divulge referees’ identities to contributors. If you wish to make  yourself known to those whose work you have reviewed, please include your name and contact details on the report so that the author can contact you if they wish to do so.

Please feel free to indicate changes or add comments in the paper itself. You can anonymize the comments by changing the user name (select the Review tab, then Track Changes then Change User Name).

In order to ensure that proposed contributions to IATIS publications are refereed systematically, you are kindly requested to consider the following issues in your report. These points are suggestions. Reviewers must select only the most relevant aspects. The recommendation is most important at this stage. 

1. structure of the paper
2. research question
3. literature review
4. theoretical background
5. research design/methodology
6. analysis and discussion
7. findings and conclusions
8. references
9. English language usage
10. originality
11. recommendation (please indicate from the following):

• recommended for publication with only minor changes as indicated
• recommended for publication conditional on major revisions as indicated
• not recommended for publication

Guidelines for Book Review Submissions

The book review should be written in English and should be of 1500 to 2000 words in length. It should be composed of a summary of the contents of the book and a critical evaluation showing its relevance to specific areas of translation studies. Please follow the guidelines in the revised 2023 style-sheet for New Voices.

The following details of the book reviewed should be provided:

• Ÿ Book title in full
• Ÿ Name of the author(s) /editor(s)
• Ÿ Place and date of publication
• Ÿ Name and address of the publisher
• Ÿ Total number of pages
• Ÿ ISBN number and price

Reviewers may send us proposals to review books on specific themes or topics. Please contact our book-review editors if you have any enquiries, to discuss your proposals or find out whether the title selected is being reviewed.

Please note that, as specified in the Editorial Policy, preference will be given to contributions by researchers new to the field. However, contributions from more experienced researchers will also always be welcome.

Guidelines for Copyediting (and Proofreading)

First download the file for copyediting and rename it with your initials and the word “Copyedited” in the filename (e.g. David Charlston recently copyedited a file by author Sam Hickford. The new filename = “DC Copyedited Hickford”). The same applies for proofreading e.g. “DC Proofread Hickford”

Then make your tracked changes and comments etc. When you have finished, upload it into the copyedited section of the website. That way the next editor or proofreader can see that you have checked it, and it is ready for proof reading. Proofreading is basically the same procedure but carried out in the Production stage, ideally also with an eye for stylistic details and readability.

 

Outline of the copy editing / proof reading process.

The copyediting stage is good practice for an editor. Please do not spend too long if this is your first time. The aim is to identify any serious issues which have not been picked up in the review stage (logical/structural/methodological) and make the article look consistent with the stylesheet and the other content in the issue.

Everything you do should help towards this but the editor in charge of this article and the proofreader will also read the content again, so it is not entirely up to you to spot everything. We sometimes use the expression "another pair of eyes". It is important that several editors and reviewers have read each article to maximise the chances of identifying a big or embarrassing mistake!

First, read the article quickly and look out for minor formatting inconsistencies or anything else you think the reviewers may have missed.

The easiest way to do this is to print out the first two pages of the article and the first page of bibliography from a back issue of NV. You can use this as a template for easy comparison of formatting.

The full details of font sizes, referencing, bibliography etc are given in the stylesheet for articles. Use this to check in cases of doubt.

Don't worry about the header, footer and page numbering. I can insert these later in the publication stage. But try to make everything else, especially the first page (title, affiliation, ABSTRACT, KEYWORDS:) correspond with your template, which should also correspond with the style guide.

Look out for font sizes, bold and italics and also the use of initial capital letters for the main nouns in titles (title style).

Switch on tracked changes, read the article again and amend any details which can be improved, bearing in mind that this text has already been read and approved by the reviewers and the editor. You are looking out for minor slips, not radical changes of style or content. The author/s will need to accept the changes and respond to any comments you insert.

The bibliography is also important. Look out for inconsistencies (e.g. using a whole first name or just an initial (Smith, John / Smith, J.?) and the general layout according to the New Voices stylesheet. You can see this most easily by comparing with a template page from a back issue.

Also, look out for any obvious structural or methodological points which the author could improve (sometimes tables contain illegible words or incorrect data (e.g. percentages don’t add up), or non-English words need to be back-translated).

If there are language issues (grammatical, stylistic mistakes) which you are not sure about, please mention these in a comment the author and/or editor. They can follow it up.

Editor and Assistant Editor Profiles

Ruth ABOU RACHED joined New Voices in November 2015 during her PhD in Translation Studies and Arabic Literature (2018, University of Manchester). She is a Lecturer in Arabic Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester where she focuses her research on Iraqi women’s writing, Palestinian literatures and feminist translation studies in the context of literary and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. She is author of  Reading Iraqi women’s novels in English translation: Iraqi women’s stories (2021) and published many articles on Iraqi women’s literature in translation. She has contributed chapters in books and research projects covering feminist translation studies and Arabic literature, including translation and commentaries in The Anthology of Discourse on Arabic Translation (2022), edited by Tarek Shama and Mariam Salama-Carr. She has been a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Arabisik Seminar of  Freie Universität Berlin for PalREAD, a project seeking to document the trajectories and receptions of Palestinian literature published since 1948 using digital humanities approaches. She also has introduced programmes of Translation Studies and Arabic teaching to secondary school settings to  widen university access for scholars from under-represented groups in the UK.

Eman SURAID ALMUTAIRI is a Saudi academic and researcher specializing in Translation Studies. She earned her PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at The University of Manchester and has worked in the translation department at the University of Jeddah. She works as a freelance translator with a keen interest in the practical aspects of the translation profession, particularly within the Arabic literary context. Her research interests cover a wide range of topics in translation, including literary translation studies, dialect translation, descriptive translation studies, translation teaching, and technology.

Edmund CHAPMAN joined New Voices in July 2017. I completed my PhD in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester in 2016. My research focussed on the translation theories of the German literary critic Walter Benjamin and the French/Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida. I argued that these two writers’ thinking on translation can be applied more widely to literature as a whole; indeed, I argued that all literature can be thought of as continually ‘in translation’. The thesis included chapters on Irish novelist James Joyce, Martiniquais poet/playwright Aimé Césaire and Argentinian short story writer Jorge Luis Borges. My other research interests include postcolonial theory, world literature and critical theory. I am currently planning a research project on Jewish writers who wrote in a language other than their ‘native’ language. My most recent publication is ‘Religion, Nature and Freedom in Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52.6 (2016), 726-738.  In addition to English, I have studied French, German, Spanish and Gujarati, although I only speak French with any level of confidence! 

David CHARLSTON joined NV in 2013 after completing a PhD in Translation Studies at Manchester in 2012. I have worked outside academia for many years, first as a modern-languages teacher and, for the last 30 years, as a freelance, German-English technical translator. I have a broad, practical interest in the translation profession, especially legal translation, patents, scientific and technical translation. I am familiar with Trados and Dragon Naturally Speaking and a long-term member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and the Chartered Institute of Linguists. In 2016, I was appointed Honorary Research Fellow at CTIS in Manchester and helped with corpus building for the Genealogies of Knowledge Project. My research interests include translation from German to English, translation and (radical political) philosophy, translation history, sociological approaches to translation, Bourdieu’s theory of intercultural cultural transfer, socio-narrative theory and feminist translation studies. In 2019, I completed the translation of Ulrich Ammon’s The Position of the German Language in the World, a major contribution to the sociolinguistics of the German language by a leading scholar in this field. In 2020, I published the monograph Translation and Hegel’s Philosophy: A Transformative, Socio-Narrative Approach to A.V. Miller’s ‘Cold-War’ Retranslations, which was the product of a long-term collaboration with the translator’s daughter, Mary Lettington. I am currently (2021) working on a co-authored book, which will investigate and develop Bourdieu’s theory of intellectual encounter and intercultural transfer. 

Nancy PIÑEIRO is a technical & scientific translator from Argentina. After two years of graduate study in Latin American Studies at UNSAM (Argentina), in 2021 she entered the Sociology doctoral program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Part of her work involves research and activist projects concerning translation and social movements, activist ethnography, counterhegemonic translation in socio-environmental struggles (particularly around energy and transition in Latin America), political translation and the sociology of translation. She is the coauthor of the Argentina chapter in Pandemic Solidarity. Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis, edited by Marina Sitrin (Pluto Press, 2020). She is a member of Territorio de Ideas, IATIS and AATI.

Marija TODOROVA joined NV as editor in 2017. Completed a PhD in English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Translation Program in 2015, as well as a PhD in Peace and Development Studies at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Published two research monographs, Translating for Children as Intercultural Mediation and Children’s Literature and Cultural Diversity, and a number of articles in refereed academic journals, on topics related to interpreters’ role in conflict zones, multimodal translation, intercultural education, and translating for children. I have worked as a professional translator and interpreter for more than two decades. I’ve translated over a dozen literary books, including works by J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Carver, Eoin Colfer, and Dick King-Smith, for which I received the National Translation Prize in 2007. As an interpreter, I have worked for several major international organizations including UNHCR, UNDP, OSCE, etc.  Native in Macedonian, the languages I work with include English, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian. I also have a basic command of Albanian, Spanish, German and French. Currently, I am learning spoken Cantonese.  

I have been an Executive Council member of IATIS since 2010.

Tin Kei WONG joined NV in 2022. I am a Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. In the translation and interpreting industry, I am a certified translator working in the language pair of Chinese-English (both directions) and a certified Cantonese-English interpreter (both directions) accredited by NAATI (National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) in Australia. I completed my PhD in Translation Studies at the University of Queensland in 2019. My doctoral research looked into the implicit gender notions embedded in the English-Chinese translation works of Laura M. White, an American woman missionary who had worked in China for forty years since the late nineteenth century. I am currently working on a monograph developed from this doctoral project. My research interests are intercultural issues in translating children’s literature, women’s writing, and humour. My most recent publication is a book chapter titled ‘Translating Western Girlhood: Laura M. White’s Chinese Translation of Sara Crewe (1888)’ in Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality, 113-130, Springer, 2022. 

 

Assistant Journal Editor Profiles

Ziling BAI is a PhD candidate in Translation Studies who has now successfully defended her thesis entiled "Vividness in Translation: The Renditions of Episodic Memory in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse in Contemporary China (1988, 2003)". She has studied the politics of literature and literary translation in twentieth-century China. Ziling has translated Virginia Woolf, Lloyd Osbourne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Carlos Magdalena. Her other areas of interest in Translation Studies include literary translation, crowdsourcing, translation and history, translation and deconstruction, and cognitive narrative studies.

Fernando GABARRÓN BARRIOS joined New Voices as guest editor in 2024. He is a Hong Kong PhD Fellowship student in translation and interpreting at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting from UJI University of Spain, and an MPhil (by research) from HKBU. His research interests are risk management in political translation/interpreting, corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, and the intersection between digital humanities and translation/interpreting studies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3785-2330).

Shiyao GUO is a final-year PhD candidate in Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research explores the ethical issues, positioning, roles, and identity of interpreters within military contexts through a combined socio-narrative approach and ethical framework. Her research interests include translation and history, ethics, archival research, sociological approaches, and translators and interpreters in wars and conflicts. She holds an MA in Translation Studies from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Coralia ILIADOU is a PhD Candidate in Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her recently completed doctoral research examined film translation practice and censorship in post-war Greece (1949-74) through the lens of narrative and new censorship theories. Coralia obtained a BA degree in English Language and Literature (Distinction) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MA in Translation and Interpreting Studies from the University of Manchester. She has taught EN-EL translation at the University of Manchester, and also worked as a professional translator, proofreader, and editor for the last 10 years. Her research interests include but are not limited to (audiovisual) translation history, media translation, new theories of censorship, narrativity, and the role of film distribution and translation agents in contemporary history and the history of social movements. 

Jiaqi LIU is currently a final year PhD student in Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester. Before embarking on her doctoral journey, she gained practical experience as a translator and interpreter outside of academia. Jiaqi's PhD project applies Engeström's activity theory to explore how practitioners' game literacy mediates their quality of practice in game localisation work. Her main research interests include game localisation, multimodal translation, translation workplace studies, activity theory, the socio-cognitive approach to translation, and the mediality and materiality of translation practice. Jiaqi has been involved in editorial work, peer review and has presented her work at multiple international conferences focusing on audiovisual translation (AVT) and game localisation.

Ye TIAN completed his PhD in Translation Studies at Queen's University Belfast in 2023. He has worked as a lecturer in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester and as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of English, University of Liverpool. He is now a visiting scholar at Durham University. He is interested in semiotics, hermeneutics, heritage and museums, and how they relate to translation. In particular, his research investigates the new theoretical and practical insights translation can provide in understanding the promotion of soft power, especially in terms of nation branding. He is also intrigued by the theory of semiotic translation, and thus inclined to rethink culture theories within the scope of intersemiotic translation. (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4591-272X)

Lin ZHANG received his PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Manchester in January 2024. His PhD thesis is entitled “Ku Hung-Ming’s Translation of Confucian Classics: Renarrating Confucianism and Critiquing Western Modernity”, which constitutes a paradigm shift in Ku Hung-Ming studies and provides a model of applying narrative theory in literary-philosophical translations. His interests in translation studies include translation theory, translation history, literary translation, and narrative theory. He also has broad interests in classical Confucianism, modern Chinese intellectual history, comparative literature and world literature. His articles on Ku Hung-Ming’s translations will be published soon.