Rachel Weissbrod

Rachel Weissbrod is Professor Emerita and former chair of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her areas of research include theory of translation, literary translation into Hebrew, film and TV translation and the interrelation between translation and other forms of transfer.

Her articles appeared in Target, The Translator, Meta, Babel, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Translation Studies and more. Her books In Other Days: Trends in Israeli Poetry in the 1950s (2002, in Hebrew) and Not by Word Alone, Fundamental Issues in Translation (2007, in Hebrew) were published by the Open University of Israel. She co-authored with Ayelet Kohn Translating the Visual - A Multimodal Perspective (Routledge 2019) and Multimodal Experiences Across Cultures, Space and Identities (Routledge 2023).