Haidee Kruger

Haidee Kotze (Kruger) completed her PhD in Translation Studies in 2010 at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Her first monograph was published in 2012 by John Benjamins, titled Postcolonial polysystems: The production and reception of translated children's literature in South Africa. In 2013 she was the co-recipient of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) Young Scholar Award for this monograph.

Haidee is currently the editor of the journal Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, and a member of the international teaching staff of the Centre of Translation Studies (CETRA) at KU Leuven, where she teaches in the annual summer school. She is a member of the international Thematic Network on Empirical and Experimental Research in Translation (TREC). She is also a participant in the international Varieties of English in the Indo-Pacific (VEIP) research project.

She is the Director of Higher Degree Research in the Department of Linguistics, and is responsible for taking care of all matters relating to MRes Year 2 and HDR. 

Haidee's current research interests focus on language variation and change in contact settings, with an emphasis on both the psycholinguistic and social conditions of language contact. Within this framework, she studies World Englishes, learner language, and translated language. She has a particular interest in understanding translation as a type of bilingual language processing, making use of quantitative corpus-linguistic methods as well as experimental methods derived from writing and reading research, including eye-tracking, keylogging and screen recording.

Haidee holds a position as extraordinary professor in the research focus area Understanding and Processing Language in Complex Settings (UPSET) at the North-West University in South Africa.