Translation Matters has opened the call for contributions to its Spring Special Issue, Volume 9, Issue 1, dedicated to "Media Ecologies of Translation".
The special issue welcomes submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Intermediality as a theoretical framework for translation studies
- Modal gain and loss across media (visual, auditory, kinetic, tactile, olfactory, etc.)
- New media infrastructures and platform-specific translation (digital, XR, algorithmic)
- Social and experiential stakes of intermedial translation (medicine, environment)
- Intermedial translation and participatory/performative practices
- Archival, archaeological or diachronic approaches to intermedial translation
- Intermedial translation and narrative remediations (film, comics, games, VR)
- Intersections of intermedial translation with experiential translation
- Translation, embodiment and affect in intermedial contexts
- Methodologies for analysing intermedial case studies (modal audits, typologies, toolbox protocols)
- Case studies in creative translation: theatre, dance, sound art, digital poetry, interactive books, data artefacts
Important information:
- Deadline: 15 July 2026
- Expected publication: Spring 2027
- Extent: 6,000–8,000 words, including references
For more information, please check the official call for papers .