Şebnem Susam-Saraeva

Prof Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (she/her) holds a Personal Chair of Translation Studies at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.  Şebnem’s research interests have included gender and translation, translation of French feminism, translation in maternal health, and translation and ecofeminism. Her gender-related publications include:  

• 2025. Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem and Carolyn Shread, (eds). Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation. Special issue of Feminist Translation Studies.
• 2025. Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem and Carolyn Shread. Making the Leap: Embracing the More-than-Human in Feminist and Queer Translation. Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation. Special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 2(1): 1-12. Permanent free access at https://doi.org/10.1080/29940443.2025.2566288
• 2025. Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem and Jenny Patterson. “Sign and move on”: Interpreter awareness of legal and ethical informed consent in maternity care. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. Open Access at https://benjamins.com/online/target/articles/target.23053.sus
• 2024. Patterson, Jenny and Şebnem Susam-Saraeva. Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity services: Perspectives from providers and researchers of both maternity care and translation/interpreting services. Language and Health 2(2). Open Access at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laheal.2024.06.001
• 2023. Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem (ed.). “Roundtable: Feminist interpreting (studies) – the story so far.” With Carmen Acosta Vicente, Luciana Carvalho Fonseca, Olga García-Caro, Begoña Martínez-Pagán, Flor Montero, Gabriela Yañez. Translation Studies 16 (1): 134-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2022.2147989
• Retranslating ‘Kara Toprak’: Ecofeminism revisited through a canonical folk song. Unsettling Translation (2022). Retranslating ‘Kara Toprak’ | 16 | Ecofeminism revisited through a can (taylorfrancis.com)
• Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem and Luciana Carvalho Fonseca (2021). Translation in maternal and neonatal health. In Susam-Saraeva and Spišiaková (eds) Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health. London & New York: Routledge. 
• Representing experiential knowledge: Who may translate whom? (2021) Translation Studies 14(1): 84-95. DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2020.1846606  
• Translating birth stories as counter-narratives. (2020) Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción, 13(1): 45-63. doi: 10.27533/udea.mut.v13n1a02     
• Theories on the Move: Translation’s Role in the Travels of Literary Theories. (2006) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi 

Şebnem is also behind the RSE-funded projects 'Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity services' (the video link to which can be found here) and ‘The Beginnings: Factoring in interpreting at antenatal care and midwifery education’. More information on these projects can be found at here and here. Şebnem teaches the Gender and Translation option course for the MSc in Translation Studies programme.