Şebnem Susam-Saraeva is a Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. Her research interests have included retranslations, research methodology in translation studies, internationalization of the discipline, and translation and gender, literary theories, popular music, social movements, and maternal health. Her recent work has focused on retranslations of folk songs through the lens of ecofeminism; ethics of the representation and translation of marine mammal communication in arts and music; and, (knowledge) translation in climate crisis discourse. She is the co-founder of the Eco-translation Network (with Michael Cronin). She is also a doula, permaculture practitioner, and occasional poet.
Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French in Trinity College Dublin and Senior Researcher in the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. He has taught in universities in France and Ireland and has held Visiting Research Fellowships to universities in Canada, Belgium, Peru, France, Egypt and Scotland. Among his recently published titles are Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Irish and Ecology: An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht (FÁS, 2019) and Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the Academia Europaea, an Officier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
Kobus Marais is professor of translation studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language practice of University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has published three monographs, namely Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach (2014), A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (2018) and Trajectories of Translation: The Thermodynamics of Semiosis (June 2023) as well as a number of edited volumes such as Translation Beyond Translation Studies (2022). His work provides a conceptual underpinning for a new materialist approach to ecological issues by amending linguicentric and anthropocentric approaches to be fully semiotic approaches. His research interests are translation theory, complexity thinking, semiotics/biosemiotics and development studies.