The Languages of COVID-19

This collection advocates for languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time.

Piotr Blumczynski is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Ubiquitous Translation (Routledge, 2016) and editor-in-chief of the journal Translation Studies. In 2022-2024, he is co-directing the research programme MISTE exploring various sites of translation and cross-cultural encounter on the island of Ireland.
Steven Wilson is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France (Legenda, 2020) and has edited medical humanities-themed journal special issues on French Autopathography (2016), French Thanatology (2021) and Cultural Languages of Pain (2023).