Lucyna Harmon is Professor at the Institute of English Studies and Head of the Department of Translation Theory, University of Rzeszów, Poland. Her expertise includes general and literary translation, general and comparative linguistics, and intercultural communication.Dorota Osuchowska is Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów, Poland, where she lectures in academic writing, applied linguistics, and lexicography.

• Research in contemporary translation studies – General theory of translation – Myth of the cultural turn – Interpreter’s profession in Latvia after 1988 – Translation of foreign literature in Hong Kong in the 1950s – Translation issues in the Amistad case – Lingua-cognitive aspects of translation – Queer (and) translation praxis – Dictionary use by translation – Foreign idiolect in translation – Cultural transplantation – Humour in audio-visual translation