Meet our team

CETRA is an initiative of the Translation Studies Research Unit, which is a part of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven (Belgium). However, our team members come from various departments, faculties and universities from around the world. What binds us together is our common goal to stimulate the international scholarly debate on translation.

We invite you to learn more about our goals and regulations by reading our mission statement and statutes.

If you would like to become a visiting scholar, an international scholar or an (associated) research member of CETRA, please contact our administrative coordinator or our director to receive more information about the application procedure.

Our director

• Jack Mc Martin (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)

Our other board members

• Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Elke Brems (KU Leuven, Coordinator Translation Studies)
• Dirk Delabastita (PhD school FNRS)
• Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Heidi Salaets (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Luc van Doorslaer (KU Leuven, Translation Studies, University of Tartu)

Our administrative coordinator

• Steven Dewallens (KU Leuven)

Our 2023 Summer School teaching staff includes our board members, as well as

• Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Dilek Dizdar (University of Mainz-Germersheim, Germany)
• Paola Gentile (Università delgli Studi di Trieste, Italy)
• Daniel Gile (ESIT, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
• Deborah Giustini (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Maud Gonne (University of Liège, Belgium)
• Haidee Kotze (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Inge Lanslots (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Francis Mus (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Franz Pöchhacker (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds, England)
• Ayla Rigouts Terryn (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Leo Tak-hung Chan (Guangxi University, China)
• Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Jeroen Vandaele (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Piet Van Poucke (Ghent University, Belgium)

Our steering committee includes our board members, as well as

• Tom Daems (KU Leuven, Institute of Criminology)
• Benjamin De Mesel (KU Leuven, Philosophy)
• Raphaël Ingelbien (KU Leuven, Literary Studies)
• Michaël Opgenhaffen (KU Leuven, Social Sciences)
• Birgitte Schoenmakers (KU Leuven, Faculty of Medicine)
• Tom Toremans (KU Leuven, Literary Studies)
• Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Linguistics)
• Pierre Van Hecke (KU Leuven, Biblical Studies)
• Heidi Verplaetse (KU Leuven, Linguistics)

Our advisory board 

• Dilek Dizdar (University of Mainz-Germersheim, Germany)
• Daniel Gile (ESIT, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
• Haidee Kotze (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Franz Pöchhacker (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds, England)
• Leo Tak-hung Chan (Guangxi University, China)
• Piet Van Poucke (Ghent University, Belgium)

Our honorary chairman

• José Lambert (KU Leuven)

Our research members include our board members and steering board members, as well as

• Hisham Ali (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Abied Alsulaiman (KU Leuven, Arabic Studies)
• Nasrin Ashrafi (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Adrien Carbonnet (KU Leuven, Japanese Studies)
• Núria Codina Solà (KU Leuven, Literary Studies)
• Anthony Cordingley (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Antoon Cox (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Ernest De Clerck (KU Leuven, Literary Studies)
• Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Ben De Witte (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Joëlle Feijen (KU Leuven, Literary Studies)
• Theresia Feldmann (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Peter Flynn (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Deborah Giustini (KU Leuven, Japanese Studies)
• Michèle Goyens (KU Leuven, Linguistics)
• Alireza Jazini (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Jianfeng Jiang (KU Leuven, Translation Studies; Beijing Foreign Studies University)
• Hendrik Kockaert (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Demi Krystallidou (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Ellen Lambrechts (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Inge Lanslots (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Shuang Li (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Anne Reynders (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Masoud Shahnazari (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• María Sol Sansiñena (KU Leuven, Linguistics)
• Laura Theys (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Dominique Van Schoor (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Lena Vaes (KU Leuven, Translation Studies; Ghent University)
• Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven, Literary Studies)
• An Van Hecke (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)
• Maria-Cornelia Wermuth (KU Leuven, Translation Studies)

Our associated research members

• Brecht de Groote (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Paola Gentile (Università delgli Studi di Trieste, Italy)
• Maud Gonne (University of Liège, Belgium)
• Stylianos Hourmouziadis (independent researcher)
• Francis Mus (Ghent University, Belgium)
• Elies Smeyers (University of Liège, Belgium & UCLouvain, Belgium)

Our (former) Summer School Chair Professors

• †Gideon Toury (Tel Aviv, 1989)
• †Hans Vermeer (Heidelberg, 1990)
• Susan Bassnett (Warwick, 1991)
• †Albrecht Neubert (Leipzig, 1992)
• Daniel Gile (Paris, 1993)
• Mary Snell-Hornby (Vienna, 1994)
• †André Lefevere (Austin, 1995)
• Anthony Pym (Tarragona, 1996)
• Yves Gambier (Turku, 1997)
• Lawrence Venuti (Philadelphia, 1998)
• Andrew Chesterman (Helsinki, 1999)
• Christiane Nord (Magdeburg, 2000)
• Mona Baker (Manchester, 2001)
• Maria Tymoczko (Amherst, Massachusetts, 2002)
• Ian Mason (Edinburgh, 2003)
• Michael Cronin (Dublin, 2004)
• †Daniel Simeoni (Toronto, 2005)
• Harish Trivedi (Delhi, 2006)
• †Miriam Shlesinger (Tel Aviv, 2007)
• Kirsten Malmkjaer (London, 2008)
• †Martha Cheung (Hong Kong, 2009)
• Sherry Simon (Montreal, 2010)
• Christina Schaeffner (Aston, 2011)
• Franz Pöchhacker (Vienna, 2012)
• Michaela Wolf (Graz, 2013)
• Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen, 2014)
• Judy Wakabayashi (Kent, USA, 2015)
• Jeremy Munday (Leeds, 2016)
• Leo Tak-hung Chan (Hong Kong, 2017)
• Sandra Halverson (Bergen, Norway, 2018)
• Jemina Napier (Edinburgh, UK, 2019)
• Brian James Baer (Kent State University, USA, 2020)
• Kaisa Koskinen (Tampere University, Finland, 2022)

Our former Summer School staff members

• Aline Remael (UAntwerpen, Belgium, in 2019)
• Andrew Chesterman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Peter Flynn (KU Leuven, staff member from 2008 until 2016)
• Yves Gambier (University of Turku, Finland, staff member from 1997 to 2018)
• Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
• Anthony Pym (Rovira i Virgili University, until 2011)
• Christina Schaeffner (Aston University, United Kingdom, until 2019)

Our visiting and international scholars (in reversed chronological order)

• Imam Benammar (Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia university, Algeria, August 2019)
• Jianfeng Jiang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, November 2018 – November 2019)
• Miao Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, September 2017 – September 2018)
• Fruzsina Kovács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, September 2017 – January 2018)
• Brian Baer (Kent State University, Ohio, USA; October-November 2016)
• Ilse Feinauer (Stellenbosch University, South Africa; October-November 2016)
• Ivana Calciano (Universität Mainz-Germersheim, October – December 2015)
• Michael Cronin (Dublin City University, April – May 2015)
• Mi Zhang (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2016)
• Zelina Beato (15 July 2012 – 15 September 2013)
• Lucile Davier (1 October 2012 – 30 September 2013)
• Marco Paone (30 November 2012 – 31 January 2013)