Associate Professor of Translation and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham, UK

Expertise: Translation theory, translation in or involving Africa, literary translation, postcolonial studies

Kathryn Batchelor is Professor of Translation Studies and Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at UCL, UK. She is the author of Translation and Paratexts (2018) and Decolonizing Translation (2009/2014), and has co-edited six volumes of essays, including Intimate Enemies: Translation in Francophone Contexts (2013, with Claire Bisdorff), Translating Frantz Fanon across Continents and Languages (2017, with Sue-Ann Harding), and Translation, Trouvailles (2023, with Chantal Wright). Kathryn’s primary research interests lie in translation theory, postcolonial translation, translation history, and translation philosophy.