Associate Professor in Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria

Expertise: Cultural and sociological approaches to translation, knowledge translation, translation policy, translation history

Rafael Schögler is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. He studied translation studies (habilitation) and sociology (doctorate) and has spent time as a visiting researcher at both CenTras, London and CTIS, Manchester. His research deals with divergent aspects of knowledge translation ranging from questions of internationalization to the politics of book translation. In this context he published the edited volume Circulation of Academic Thought. Rethinking Translation in the Academic Field (2019) as well as the open access monograph Die Politik der Buchübersetzung. Entwicklungslinien in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften nach 1945 (2023). Currently, he is also involved in the project Towards a Cosmovision Turn. Challenging Basic Translation Theories that deals with translation in indigenous communities and its links to the development of translation theories in the context of missionary work. Rafael Schögler is associate editor of the John Benjamins journal Translation in Society, author of several contributions in English, French and German as well as part of a research team working on the connections of history, translation and politics at the University of Graz. He is member of EST and IATIS.