Meng Ji

Meng Ji received the M.A. degree from University College London and the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London. She specializes in empirical translation studies, especially data-driven multilingual corpus analyses. She has published on environmental translation, healthcare translation, statistical translation stylistics/authorship attribution, and international multilingual education (statistical translation quality evaluation). She is the author/editor of more than two dozen research books (with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Springer, John Benjamins, Waseda University Press in Tokyo, and University of Montréal Press), the editor of two special journal issues published by the MIT Press (Leonardo), USA, and the University of Montreal Press in Canada (Meta: Journal des traducteurs), and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters on empirical translation studies. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences, the Australian Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council of the U.K., Toshiba International Foundation, Worldwide University Networks Research Development Fund, and a number of leading universities in Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil. She is a qualified professional translator between English, Spanish, and Chinese having previously worked for major international organizations before teaching at universities. Dr. Ji is the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices, (New York: Oxford University Press (with Sara Laviosa), 2020) and Advances in Empirical Translation Studies (Cambridge University Press (with Michael Oakes), 2019). She is a Guest Special Section Editor of Leonardo: TransCreation: Creativity and Innovation in Translation (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2020). She is a Founding Series Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Language Practices and Social Development (Cambridge University Press). She is a Founding Editorial Board Member of the series of Cambridge Elements of Translation and Interpreting, Cambridge University Press. She is the Founding Editor of Routledge Studies of Empirical Translation and Multilingual Communication (New York/Oxon: Routledge).