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Welcome to the website of Genetic Translation Studies, a research project that investigates the process of literary translation through the study of translators’ archives.

The aim of this project is to develop a methodology for the emerging discipline within translation studies that seeks to understand translators’ literary creativity by analysing the different stages – the genesis – of their translations. To do so, this project will formulate a research methodology for combining the methods of genetic criticism, microhistory, and the sociology of translation.

Within this website you will discover the activities and publications the projects’ researchers, as well as resources devoted to this approach.

The Genetic Translation Studies project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 893904. The project is hosted by the Centre for Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, and led by Anthony Cordingley (Université Paris 8 and University of Sydney).