Bart Defrancq

Ghent University
Bart Defrancq is an Associate Professor at Ghent University, where he coordinates the interpreting programmes and a research team on simultaneous conference interpreting and police interpreting. Bart Defrancq is the current president of CIUTI.
Most recent publications:
Defrancq, B. (2024). The dark load of simultaneous interpreting. Interpreters doing it to themselves? In Mellinger, C. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting and Cognition. Abingdon: Routledge, 71-84.
Shao, Z. and B. Defrancq (online). Fundamental frequency as an acoustic mirror of interpreters’ mental states. Interpreting.
Defrancq, B. (2024). Conference interpreting in AI settings: new skills and ethical challenges. In Massey, G., Ehrensberger-Dow, M. and E. Angelone (eds.) Handbook of the Language Industry. Berlin: DeGruyter-Mouton, 473-488.
Corpas, G. and B. Defrancq (eds.) (2023). Interpreting Technology. Current and Future Trends. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.