Professor in Translation Studies, Department of Translation, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Expertise: Directionality and pedagogical issues, historical research, post-socialist translation practices, translation theories and philosophies, public service interpreting

Nike K. Pokorn is Professor in Translation Studies at the Department of Translation, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she currently serves as the Director of Doctoral Studies in TS. Her research interests include translation and censorship, directionality in translation and public-service interpreting and translation. She was a member of the 8-member European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Expert Group appointed by the Directorate General for Translation at the European Commission that was responsible for setting up the EMT network and creating the EMT competences document. She won the European Society for Translation Studies Award for her doctoral thesis, and served two terms on the board of EST – European Society for Translation Studies, and two terms on the board of EMT – European Master’s in Translation Network. In 2017 she was elected director of the board of the Network of International Doctorate in Translation Studies ID-TS. She has published articles in different TS journals such as Target, The Translator, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Across Languages and Cultures and Perspectives, and is the author of Challenging the Traditional Axioms: Translation into a Non-Mother Tongue (John Benjamins 2005) and Post-Socialist Translation Practices (John Benjamins 2012). She is also co-editor of Why Translation Studies Matters, with Daniel Gile and Gyde Hansen (John Benjamins 2010).