Head of Department and Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Expertise: Psycholinguistics, reception, cognition, audiovisual translation (with particular emphasis on assistive modalities), eye-tracking technology

Jan-Louis Kruger is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is also extraordinary professor in the UPSET Research Focus Area on the Vaal Triangle Campus of North-West University in South Africa. He holds a PhD in English on the translation of narrative point of view. He has been involved in the teaching of and research into audiovisual translation since the late 1990s and has completed projects on subtitler training, subtitling and multilingualism, subtitling in the classroom, subtitle reading and subtitling and immersion. He has also done work on AD, which ties in with his interest in narrative theory. His current research investigates multimodal language integration such as in the reading of subtitles, and the use of same language subtitles in literacy development. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Audiovisual Translation (JAT)