Translation scholars explore a range of professional, institutional and participatory translation sites from print to digital culture. Adopting a growing range of perspectives, translation scholars explore the cognitive activity of the communicators involved; translation as a social practice driven by evolving relations between social agents and technologies; or the multimodal dimension of texts and discourses travelling across languages and cultures.
Research undertaken by AFO members reflects this diversity, as the list of topics below illustrates. Broadly speaking, the main thrust of the group’s work may be organized within four main areas: audiovisual and multimodal translation, the sociology of translation, cognitive approaches to translation, and translation technologies.
Our research group plays a leading role in establishing a Norwegian national research network in Translation Studies and developing translator training programs in the country. AFO members are involved in delivering the first and only dedicated MA program in translation in Norway and planning a project to map the landscape of translation in Norway, both in terms of professional practices and policy-making in a range of key areas.
PhD programme in Humanities and Education
Research themes
- Corpus-based Translation Studies
- Multimodality and Media Translation
- (Socio)cognitive Translation Studies
- Translation and Sociology
- Translation, Power and Ideology
- Translation Technologies
Projects
- Corpus-based Datathons to Support Collaborative, Student-drivenDebates on the Key European Values of Sustainability and Democracy (Erasmus+) - Luis Pérez-González
- Default translation - Sandra L. Halverson
- MetaLearn – Sandra Halverson
- MUST (project coordinator, Norway) - Sandra L. Halverson
- Oslo Medical Corpus (funded by UiO's Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education - Luis Pérez-González
Research cooperation
Jean Nitzke
- Member of TREC Management Committee
Luis Pérez-González:
Sandra L. Halverson:
- Affiliated researcher, MC2 Lab, University of Bologna, Forlí.
- Member of TREC
Recent publications
Beckmann, Morten (2019) Jesus i oversettelse: Kristologiske tekster i Bibelselskapets oversettelser 1959–2011 [Jesus in Translation. Christological texts in the Bible Society’s translations 1959-2011], Cappelen Damm Academic. Available online (Open Access)
Gawrońska Pettersson, Barbara (2022) ‘The World of George Grosz’s Pictures and the World Depicted in the Novel Pokora by Szczepan Twardoch’, Polylogue. Neophilological Studies 12: 153-168. Available online
Halverson, Sandra L. and Álvaro Marín García (eds) (2022) Contesting Epistemologies in Cognitive Translation Studies, London & New York: Routledge.
Nitzke, Jean, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Ann-Kathrin Habig and Silke Gutermuth (2022) ‘Translating Subtitles into Easy Language: First considerations and empirical investigation’, Translation, Mediation and Accessibility for Linguistic Minorities 128: 127-143. Available online
Pérez-González, Luis (2022) ‘Subtitling Disinformation Narratives around COVID-19. Foreign vlogging in the construction of digital nationalism in Chinese social media’, in Mona Baker (ed.) Unsettling Translation, London & New York: Routledge, 232-247. Available online (Open Access)
Beckmann, Morten. «Medial Change, Paratexts, and Source Texts in Youversion’s Platforms: The Bible Going Digital» Pages 171–198 in A (Re)Turn to the Source Text, edited by Malin Carlström og Richard Pleijel. Benjamins Translation Library. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.169.06bec.
Beckmann, Morten. «Ideology, Power, and a Virgin: Translations of Isaiah 7:14 in Norwegian Bible Translations as a Case Study». Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 37, nr. 3 (2025): 414–43. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.22017.bec.
Halverson, Sandra L. 2026. Translation and Cognitive Linguistics. Encyclopedia of English Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition, volume 10, edited by Hilary Nesi & Peter Milin, Gert de Sutter, 3rd edition, volume 10, 358-364. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Bader, Monika, Sandra L. Halverson & Christine Möller-Omrani. 2026. Metalinguistic Awareness in the EFL Classroom and Beyond: Exploring the Potential of Translation Tasks. TESOL J. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.70146
Hegrenæs, Claudia & Sandra L. Halverson. 2025. What characterizes default translation? An explorative study of default translation segments. Perspectives. Studies in translation theory and practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2025.2517263
Daems, Joke, and Jean Nitzke. "Post-editing of Machine Translation." Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier, 2026.
Nitzke, Jean. "Teaching translation technologies for languages of low diffusion." Marco Agnetta, Katharina Walter (Hg.): Künstliche Intelligenz in der Sprachmittlung und im Fremdsprachenerwerb: Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarkt im Wandel/Artificial Intelligence in translation, interpreting, and foreign language learning: Educational and vocational changes. Themenheft trans-kom 18.1 (2025): 70-82.
Pérez-González, Luis (2026, in press) 'Enmeshment in Translation Studies Research’, in John A Bateman and Chiao-I Tseng (eds) The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality. London: Wiley.