Helen Vassallo is Associate Professor of French and Translation at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). Her primary research interests are in translated literature and feminism, with a focus on contemporary women’s writing and theory. She translates Francophone women’s writing, with a particular focus on North Africa and the Middle East: most recently, she has translated Darina Al Joundi’s The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing (2022) and its sequel Marseillaise My Way (2022). Helen’s translation of selected non-fiction by Prix Goncourt-winning author Leïla Slimani, The Devil Is in the Detail and Other Stories, will be published in 2023, and she is currently working on a translation of Darina Al Joundi’s Prisoner of the Levant, a fictionalised biography of the pioneering Arab feminist May Ziadeh. Helen is the founder of Translating Women, an industry-facing research project that engages with publishers, translators, and other stakeholders to work against intersectional gender bias in the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry. She writes regular reviews and opinion pieces for the Translating Women blog, as well as freelance pieces elsewhere, and she tweets about the project at @translatewomen.

"Animated by case studies of five risk-taking independent presses, Helen Vassallo's Towards a Feminist Translator Studies brings the agency of translators and editors into sharp focus and convincingly argues in favor of an activist approach in challenging the patriarchal status quo of translated literature." —Margaret Carson, City University of New York (cofounder, Women in Translation Tumblr)"Towards a Feminist Translator Studies is a timely and illuminating analysis of the role played by independent UK publishers in improving the intersectional gender balance of literature translated into English. This is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the contemporary British publishing scene, and also a rallying cry to do more: to further diversify publishers' lists; to think carefully about who translates, simultaneously challenging received wisdoms about directionality in translation; to broaden our own reading by actively seeking out new and unfamiliar literary horizons." - Chantal Wright, Reader in Translation as a Literary Practice, University of Warwick (Founder, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation)

• Introduction: Towards a Feminist Translator StudiesChapter 1: Action. Committing to gender activism with And Other StoriesChapter 2: Representation. Re-negotiating cultural encounters with Charco PressChapter 3: Responsibility. Publishing against the "proven formula" with Comma PressChapter 4: Risk: Shifting power dynamics with Fitzcarraldo EditionsChapter 5: Hospitality: Publishing against the mainstream with Tilted Axis PressConclusion: Publishing Beyond Bias? From resistance to resilienceIndex

Helen Vassallo is Associate Professor of French and Translation at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). Her primary research interests are in translated literature and feminism, with a focus on contemporary women’s writing and theory. She translates Francophone women’s writing, with a particular focus on North Africa and the Middle East: most recently, she has translated Darina Al Joundi’s The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing (2022) and its sequel Marseillaise My Way (2022). Helen’s translation of selected non-fiction by Prix Goncourt-winning author Leïla Slimani, The Devil Is in the Detail and Other Stories, will be published in 2023, and she is currently working on a translation of Darina Al Joundi’s Prisoner of the Levant, a fictionalised biography of the pioneering Arab feminist May Ziadeh. Helen is the founder of Translating Women, an industry-facing research project that engages with publishers, translators, and other stakeholders to work against intersectional gender bias in the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry. She writes regular reviews and opinion pieces for the Translating Women blog, as well as freelance pieces elsewhere, and she tweets about the project at @translatewomen.

"Animated by case studies of five risk-taking independent presses, Helen Vassallo's Towards a Feminist Translator Studies brings the agency of translators and editors into sharp focus and convincingly argues in favor of an activist approach in challenging the patriarchal status quo of translated literature." —Margaret Carson, City University of New York (cofounder, Women in Translation Tumblr)"Towards a Feminist Translator Studies is a timely and illuminating analysis of the role played by independent UK publishers in improving the intersectional gender balance of literature translated into English. This is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the contemporary British publishing scene, and also a rallying cry to do more: to further diversify publishers' lists; to think carefully about who translates, simultaneously challenging received wisdoms about directionality in translation; to broaden our own reading by actively seeking out new and unfamiliar literary horizons." - Chantal Wright, Reader in Translation as a Literary Practice, University of Warwick (Founder, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation)

• Introduction: Towards a Feminist Translator StudiesChapter 1: Action. Committing to gender activism with And Other StoriesChapter 2: Representation. Re-negotiating cultural encounters with Charco PressChapter 3: Responsibility. Publishing against the "proven formula" with Comma PressChapter 4: Risk: Shifting power dynamics with Fitzcarraldo EditionsChapter 5: Hospitality: Publishing against the mainstream with Tilted Axis PressConclusion: Publishing Beyond Bias? From resistance to resilienceIndex

Helen Vassallo is Associate Professor of French and Translation at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). Her primary research interests are in translated literature and feminism, with a focus on contemporary women’s writing and theory. She translates Francophone women’s writing, with a particular focus on North Africa and the Middle East: most recently, she has translated Darina Al Joundi’s The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing (2022) and its sequel Marseillaise My Way (2022). Helen’s translation of selected non-fiction by Prix Goncourt-winning author Leïla Slimani, The Devil Is in the Detail and Other Stories, will be published in 2023, and she is currently working on a translation of Darina Al Joundi’s Prisoner of the Levant, a fictionalised biography of the pioneering Arab feminist May Ziadeh. Helen is the founder of Translating Women, an industry-facing research project that engages with publishers, translators, and other stakeholders to work against intersectional gender bias in the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry. She writes regular reviews and opinion pieces for the Translating Women blog, as well as freelance pieces elsewhere, and she tweets about the project at @translatewomen.

"Animated by case studies of five risk-taking independent presses, Helen Vassallo's Towards a Feminist Translator Studies brings the agency of translators and editors into sharp focus and convincingly argues in favor of an activist approach in challenging the patriarchal status quo of translated literature." —Margaret Carson, City University of New York (cofounder, Women in Translation Tumblr)"Towards a Feminist Translator Studies is a timely and illuminating analysis of the role played by independent UK publishers in improving the intersectional gender balance of literature translated into English. This is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the contemporary British publishing scene, and also a rallying cry to do more: to further diversify publishers' lists; to think carefully about who translates, simultaneously challenging received wisdoms about directionality in translation; to broaden our own reading by actively seeking out new and unfamiliar literary horizons." - Chantal Wright, Reader in Translation as a Literary Practice, University of Warwick (Founder, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation)

• Introduction: Towards a Feminist Translator StudiesChapter 1: Action. Committing to gender activism with And Other StoriesChapter 2: Representation. Re-negotiating cultural encounters with Charco PressChapter 3: Responsibility. Publishing against the "proven formula" with Comma PressChapter 4: Risk: Shifting power dynamics with Fitzcarraldo EditionsChapter 5: Hospitality: Publishing against the mainstream with Tilted Axis PressConclusion: Publishing Beyond Bias? From resistance to resilienceIndex