Translation and Neoliberalism

Ali Jalalian Daghigh is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia, where he teaches and mentors master’s and PhD students conducting research in Translation Studies and Critical Discourse Studies. Prior to joining UM, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research is widely published in several international journals, and he is the editor of Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South, published by Springer in 2022.

Mark Shuttleworth is Professor and Dean of the School of Translation and Foreign Languages at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in translation studies research and teaching since 1993, at the University of Leeds, Imperial College London, University College London and – more recently – at Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications include the Dictionary of Translation Studies and articles on translation technology, translator training, metaphor in translation, translation and the web, and Wikipedia translation. He is interested in the use of digital methodologies in translation studies research. His monograph, Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation, was published in 2017, and he is currently working on the second edition of the Dictionary.