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Jean Nitzke is Associate Professor of Translation with a focus on translation technology at the University of Agder. Her research and teaching are primarily concerned with cognitive and practical aspects of post-editing of machine translation, translation technologies, translation for special purposes, and L2 translation. She makes use of empirical methods like eye-tracking, keylogging, and questionnaires.

Jean Nitzke is author of Problem-solving Activities in Post-editing and Translation from Scratch: A Multi-method Study (LangSci, 2019) and co-author of A Short Guide to Post-editing (LangSci, 2021). Her articles have been published in various journals and edited volumes.

Barbara J. Gawronska Pettersson is Professor of Translation Theory and Intercultural Communication at the University of Agder. Her early scientific publications concerned mostly language technology, especially rule-based and hybrid methods for machine translation, text generation and information extraction from texts. Her current research lies mainly in the field of cognitive translation studies, semantics, text linguistics, and literary translation. She is interested in translational approaches to culturally bound phenomena, sociolects, slang, and idiolects, as well as figurative language. She also investigates issues related to identity, gender, and power in relation to the work of translators. Another area that interests her is intertextuality in translation, including relations between text and paratexts (illustrations, graphical design etc.).

Professor Gawronska Pettersson has published articles in Acta Sueco-Polonica, Comparative Legilinguistics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Linguistics Beyond and Within, Polylogue. Neophilological Studies, Studia Linguistica, and other journals and edited volumes. Her two most recent book chapters (one co-authored) feature in Languages, Cultures, Worldviews. Focus on Translation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She is a member of the editorial committee of Polylogue. Neophilological Studies.

In her free time, Professor Gawronska Pettersson writes fiction. She has published two novels (one of which has been translated into English) and several short stories.

Anlaug Ersland is PhD Research Fellow in Translation Studies at the University of Agder. In her project Investigating Metonymy in Audiovisual Translation, she explores theoretical and empirical approaches to the translation of metonymy in subtitles, with a special focus on translation strategies, cultural aspects of translation and multimodality.

In 2014, she graduated from the University of Bergen with an MA in English and translation. Her thesis, entitled Is change necessary? A study of norms and universals in intralingual translation, examined the translation of British young adult fiction for an American audience.

Erlend Wichne is Research Fellow in Translation Studies at the University of Agder. In the research project Gjendikting på norsk, 1872‒2012 (The Translation Concept of gjendikting in Norwegian, 1872‒2012) he explores the position and history of the translation concept gjendikting in Norway. The project has a strong emphasis on methodological aspects, including the use of empirical data, and includes a quantitative and a qualitative component.

He has given lectures on the concept of gjendikting and methods in translation studies, and written extensively on social aspects of translation for news papers and magazines. Wichne has published several Norwegian translations of French poetry and is former co-editor of magazine Mellom, devoted to translation. An overview of his activities is available here.