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Joss Moorkens

Dr. Joss Moorkens

Joss Moorkens is an Associate Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, a Funded Investigator and Science Lead at the ADAPT Centre, and a member of DCU's Institute of Ethics and Centre for Translation and Textual Studies. He has authored or coauthored over 70 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers on translation technology, human factors in translation technology and machine translation, translator precarity, and translation ethics.

He is General Coeditor of the journal Translation Spaces with Prof. Dorothy Kenny, and coedited the books 'Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice' (Springer, 2018) and 'Teaching Translation in the Age of Generative AI' (LangSci, 2025), and special issues of Machine Translation (2019), Translation Spaces (2020), and the Journal of Specialised Translation (2024). He is a coauthor of the textbooks 'Translation Tools and Technologies' (Routledge 2023) and 'Automating Translation' (Routledge 2025). He leads the Technology working group (with Prof. Tomáš Svoboda) as a board member of the European Masters in Translation network and sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Specialised Translation.

Research Interests

Translation technology; translation ethics; translation and sociology; machine translation; translation technology user studies for desktop and mobile; usability.

Teaching Interests

Interested in novel, experiential, and blended methods to translation technology and audiovisual translation teaching. As a board member of the EMT Network, he participates in information sharing to ascertain best practice in translation teaching and updating of teaching competences for teaching across Europe.

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External Positions

  • Science Lead, ADAPT Centre
    01/02/2024 – 31/12/2026
  • Board Member, European Master's in Translation Network
    01/09/2019 – 31/08/2029