Website of Michael En

Work™
– or: ‘So what do you do?’

Go to the Qwir website.

In 2017, I co-founded Qwir text + design, a text, translation and design agency for people in academia, activist organisations and other areas of life. Based in Vienna, we offer:

• translation (to and from en ‹ ›  and de)
• editing & proofreading
• layout & formatting
• web & graphic design
• workshops & training
• and more

In all our work, we try to encourage what’s good in the world. For Qwir, that means taking a perspective of social awareness, a focus on accessibility, and an overall approach that, in text and design, treats people and the world we live in with kindness.

Academia & research

‘So what do you do?’, university edition:

Research areas & interests

My academic work focuses on and has been shaped by:

• transcultural communication
• global & local language power relations
• translation
• lingualism
• critical sociolinguistics
• discourse analysis
• native-speakerism
• stereotype threat
• gender & sexuality
• queer theory

And, maybe most importantly: etc.

Academic profiles

You can follow my research on:

• Academia.edu
• ORCID
• ResearchGate
• Kudos
• Google Scholar
• u:cris

Upcoming publications

There are a few publications I’m currently working on that I’m not allowed to mention here yet, but I’m happy to announce that the following is scheduled to come out soon(ish):

• En, Boka & En, Michael (forthcoming 2021). (Un)doing relationships: Boundary-Drawing and Queer(ing) Ways of Relating. In Rees, Emma (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture. Routledge.

Recent publications

I try to make my texts as accessible as possible. If you cannot access a text that you are interested in, please let me know.

• En, Michael (ed.) (2020). Truths, trust and translation. A festschrift, love letter and thank you to Michèle Cooke. Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/b17300
  • Text, teas and thank yous: An Einleitung. 7–9.
  • Of bullet points and cows: Illuminating truths and truisms. 17–33.
• En, Boka & En, Michael (2020). Beziehung(s)formen im queeren Alltag. In Michel Raab & Cornelia Schadler (Eds.), Polyfantastisch? Nichtmonogamie als emanzipatorische Praxis. Unrast, 45–64.
• En, Michael & En, Boka (2019). “Coming out”… as a translator? Expertise, identities and knowledge practices in an LGBTIQ* migrant community translation project. Translation Studies, 1–18. doi: 10.1080/14781700.2019.1696222
• En, Boka; En, Michael; Griffiths, David & Pöll, Mercedes (2017) Non-monogamies and queer kinship: personal-political reflections. Queer STS Forum, 2(1), 15–27. ‹ PDF ›
• En, Boka; En, Michael & Pöll, Mercedes (2017). A world without gender? The struggle of Austria’s far right over what it means to be human: An analysis of Barbara Rosenkranz’ book MenschInnen. In Michaela Köttig, Renate Bitzan, & Andrea Pető (Eds.), Gender and far right politics in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 235–252. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43533-6_16

Upcoming conference contributions

2020: everything cancelled. 2021: everything online.

• International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT5) 3–5 June, Amsterdam (online)
• 3rd New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching International Conference 19–21 May 2021, Granada (online) Unfortunately, I had to cancel due to COVID-19-related changes.

If you see me there, say hi!

Previous conference contributions (selection)

• Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies 27–29 September 2018, Vienna
• Translating Feminism: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Text, Place and Agency 13–15 June 2018, Glasgow
• International Conference on Translation and Censorship in Literature and the Media 28–29 September 2017, València
• Languaging Diversity: Language(s) and Power 3–5 March 2016, Macerata
• Queer Translation 26–28 March 2015, Vienna

If you saw me at one of these or at any others I didn’t list here, be it at my presentations or in the queue for the buffet, let me know!

Current teaching

Summer 2021:

• UE English as a lingua franca: Communication skills for multilingual and multicultural settings Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna Developing awareness of current global(ised) English(es) and the linguistic, socio-political realities they entail. Finding your own voice in English in personal and professional communication. Learning to act responsibly in international and/or translingual communication settings.

Most recent teaching

• UE English as a lingua franca: Communication skills for multilingual and multicultural settings Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna (from winter 2020)
• SE Translating Knowledge: Creative English for academic communication seminar for PhD students at the University of Vienna (summer 2018 & winter 2019)