Written by leading scholars in translation studies, media studies and literary studies, this volume sets to open up new conversations among these fields in relation to the global pandemic and its aftermath.

Tong King Lee is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong.

Dingkun Wang is Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong.

Introduction: translation in the time of #COVID-19

Tong King Lee and Dingkun Wang

1. Cabin'd, cribbed, confin'd: how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing our world

Susan Bassnett

2. Translating knowledge, establishing trust: the role of social media in communicating the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

José van Dijck and Donya Alinejad

3. Trust and cooperation through social media: COVID-19 translations for Chinese communities in Melbourne

Anthony Pym and Bei Hu

4. Parallel pandemic spaces: translation, trust and social media

Sharon O'Brien, Patrick Cadwell, and Tetyana Lokot

5. Hello/Bonjour won't cut it in a health crisis: an analysis of language policy and translation strategy across Manitoban websites and social media during COVID-19

Renée Desjardins

6. On memes as semiotic hand-grenades: a conversation

MaCarmen África Vidal Claramonte and Ilan Stavans