Assistant Professor of Translation Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Expertise: Translating travel writing, translation and book history, translator sociology and history

Susan Pickford is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies and head of the English unit at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva. Her publications include Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830: Nationalism, Ideology, Gender (Routledge 2012) and a special issue of the journal InTRALinea on translating travel writing, both co-edited with Alison E. Martin. She has written numerous articles on translation history and sociology and contributed to several major translation studies reference works, including two volumes of the Histoire des traductions en langue française, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, the History of Translation Knowledge, the Routledge Handbook of Translation History, and the Routledge Handbook of the Translation Industry. Her monograph Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France is forthcoming in 2024, alongside an edited volume of essays on science translation in the long nineteenth century. She is also a practicing translator in the arts and humanities and was elected to the board of the French literary translators’ association for ten years.