Professor Luis Pérez-González
Academic Director, International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC)
Luis Pérez-González is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Agder, Norway, and a member of China’s Audiovisual Translation and Dissemination Committee (established by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and China Alliance of Radio, Film and Television) and the Chinese Culture Translation and Studies Support Network. Former Editor of the Interpreter and Translator Trainer, he is the author of Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues (Routledge 2014), editor of the Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation (2019), co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (2021), and co-editor of the Routledge series Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media. His articles have appeared, among other journals, in Palgrave Communications, The Translator, The Journal of Language and Politics, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Pragmatics and Language and Intercultural Communication. He has acted as a consultant for the European Agency for Reconstruction on the development of translation and interpreter training programmes and translation certification mechanisms in Eastern Europe, and for the European Commission on a project on the social impact of translation in multilingual communities. He curates content on audiovisual and media translation on his personal website.