Helen Vassallo

Helen Vassallo is a British Maltese translator and Associate Professor of French and Translation at the University of Exeter (UK). Her recent and forthcoming translations include work by Leïla Slimani, Darina Al Joundi, Margarita García Robayo and Renée Vivien. She is the author of Towards a Feminist Translator Studies: Intersectional Activism in Translation and Publishing, co-author (with Richard Mansell) of Getting Started as a Literary Translator: Translated Literature and Publishing, and Translations Editor of the journal Feminist Translation Studies.
Helen is founder of the Translating Women project, and from 2022-23 led an AHRC-funded network in partnership with English PEN on diversity within the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry.