Jan Pedersen
Jan Pedersen was educated at the universities of Stockholm, Copenhagen and Uppsala. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 2007 and was made an Associate Professor in Translation Studies there in 2015. His dissertation is entitled Scandinavian Subtitles, and it is a comparative study of TV subtitling norms in the Scandinavian countries. He is the former president of ESIST, member of EST and TraNor, co-editor of Benjamins Translation Library and Journal of Audiovisual Translation, which he also co-founded.
He is a frequent presenter at international conferences, and his publications include the 2011 monograph Subtitling Norms for Television, as well as several articles on subtitling, translation and linguistics.
He also worked as a television subtitler for many years. Jan works at Stockholm University, where he holds the post of Director of the Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies, where he also researches and teaches audiovisual translation.