School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

Minako O’Hagan, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. She is a member of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies. Specialising in applied translation research focused on the relationship between translation and technology, she has been involved in cutting-edge research with a main interest in emerging practices of translation. More recently her focus in research has been on translation by users and video game localization. She has been an investigator on a number of internationally and internally funded research projects. Her recent publications include Game Localization (O’Hagan and Mangiron 2013) which is the first major monograph on the topic in translation studies.