Beyond Individual Mastery: Translation Expertise as Collective, Distributed Enaction

Research on expertise in translation studies has largely focused on the skills and performance of individual translators. However, there is a growing body of research which demonstrates that translation practices are collaborative and embedded in complex socio-material environments. This seminar will outline how expertise research in translation studies can be enriched by adopting perspectives from socio-cognitive approaches and from research on distributed, team, and organizational expertise in other disciplines.