Affiliate Professor, SUSTAINIT, University of Oslo

Expertise: Narrative theory; Corpus-based Conceptual Analysis; Translation, Conflict and Activism

Mona Baker is Affiliate Professor at the Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT), University of Oslo, where she is responsible for developing the Sustainability & Health Corpus, co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, and Honorary Dean of the Graduate School of Translation & Interpreting at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is author of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation and Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account; co-author (with Eivind Engebretsen) of Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics; editor of Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution (winner of the 2016 Intranews Linguist of the Year Award) and Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans; and co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. She is also founding co-editor of the new Diamond Open Access journal Encounters in Translation. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of international journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; Social Movement Studies; Critical Studies on Terrorism; Social Semiotics; Translation Studies and The Translator. She posts on translation, citizen media and Palestine on her personal website and tweets at @MonaBaker11.