Books By Alison E Martin, Susan Pickford - Author

Alison E. Martin is Professor of British Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Campus Germersheim). She has published extensively on translation studies, with a particular focus on travel literature, scientific writing and gender. Her most recent monograph, Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018), explores the role played by Humboldt's female translators in the transmission of scientific knowledge to a general audience in the 19th century. She is co-editor of The Handbook of Women and Science since 1660 (2022).

Susan Pickford is head of the English Unit at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva. She has published widely on translation history, sociology and book history, and recently completed a monograph on professional translators in nineteenth-century France. She has contributed articles on the early geologist Etheldred Benett to the 2015 special issue of the Journal of Literatur