Gary Massey is a Professor of Translation Studies, Director of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, and Deputy Dean of the School of Applied Linguistics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He has published widely, and his research interests cover translator education, trainer training, translator profiles and translation process research.

Elsa Huertas-Barros is a Senior Lecturer in Translation in the School of Humanities at the University of Westminster. Her main research interests include translator education, translator competence and assessment practices. She has published her work in and with international journals and publishers and is co-editor of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (ITT).

David Katan is a Professor of English and Translation at the University of Salento (Lecce), specialising in intercultural communication. He is editor of Cultus. Publications include Translating Cultures (3rd edition), contributions for the Routledge Encyclopaedias of Translation and Conflict and Translation and Globalisation and for the Benjamins Handbook of Translation Studies.

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Acknowledgements

The human translator in the 2020s: An Introduction

Gary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros and David Katan

1. Translation's new high-tech clothes

Félix do Carmo and Joss Moorkens

2. Teaching translation technologies: an analysis of a corpus of syllabi for translation and interpreting undergraduate degrees in Spain

Roser Sánchez-Castany

3. Translation, translation revision and post-editing competence models: where are we now?

Isabelle Robert, Jim J. J. Ureel and Iris Schrijver

4. Weaving adaptive expertise into translator training

Erik Angelone

5. Tools for transforming translators into homo narrans or 'what machines can't do'

David Katan

6. 'Expanding' or 'rebranding' the translation concept? A pedagogical approach to future-proofing the translation profession in the 2020s

Juliet Vine and Elsa Huertas Barros

7. Creativity as an added value in translators' training: learning through transcreation

Marián Morón

8. The translator as a plain text designer for the Public Administration: a necessary role?

Elena Ruiz-Cortés

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