Kirsten Malmkjær is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, where she founded the Research Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies and the MA in Translation Studies. She is the editor of the Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia (third edition, 2010) and, with Kevin Windle, of the Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies (2011). She is the author of Linguistics and the Language of Translation (2005) and, with Murray Knowles, of Language and Control in Children’s Literature (Routledge, 1996).