Richard Mansell is Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Exeter, where he directs the MA Translation and researches translators’ decision-making processes and how texts are received in translation. As well as extensive work as a translator of institutional documents from Spanish and Catalan, he has translated work from Catalan poets such as Blai Bonet and Miquel Costa i Llobera, and collaborated on two successful translations and productions of Shakespeare into Catalan.