Valerie Henitiuk is an award-winning scholar researching aspects of the intersection of translation studies, world literature, Japanese literature and women’s writing. She is a Canadian citizen, currently on the faculty of the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Valerie has been a visiting scholar at both Harvard and Columbia Universities in the USA and at the Kokugakuin University in Japan. She is also Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) and editor of the journal In Other Words: the Journal for Literary Translators. Besides her academic work, Dr. Henitiuk has been deeply involved in the promotion of literary translation as a professional discipline, through a variety of organisations, serving on national and international committees.