Jack McMartin is assistant professor of Translation Studies and English at KU Leuven. His research investigates the production and reception of Dutch literature in translation, focusing on the people, institutions, and spaces that shape the global book market. He is co-editor (with Jan Van Coillie) of Children’s Literature in Translation: Texts and Contexts (Leuven University Press, 2020) and assistant editor of the John Benjamins journal Translation in Society. His most recent research explores how translation (intralingual, interlingual, intersemiotic) and translatorly roles in newsrooms shape the international circulation of science news, with an emphasis on news about Covid-19 vaccines.
