James Hadley

James Hadley is Ussher Assistant Professor in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin. He studied a dual degree of Japanese and computing at the undergraduate level. He then went on to study a master's degree in Buddhist Studies before moving on to a second master's degree in translation studies. In 2013, he completed his PhD in translation studies with a thesis challenging the hegemony of a small number of translation theories and cultural contexts in translation studies research outputs. After completing his PhD, James moved to China, where he taught and continued researching translation studies. He then became the translation studies researcher for the University of London's School of Advanced Study before moving to Dublin to take up his current post.

James works mostly in the field of indirect translation (translations of translations), but also has strong interests in machine translation, and digital humanities. James is fond of translating historical texts from Japanese into English.