Prof. Dr. Caroline Lehr

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Professor of Translation Studies
• Member of the University Ethics Committee

Focus

• Translation processes and multilingual text production
• Multilingualism in companies and organisations
• Use of artificial intelligence in multilingual communication and AI literacy
• Cognition, emotion and motivation in multilingual communication and the language professions

Teaching

• Multilingualism and Technology
• Theory & Practice of Translation
• Introduction to the Methodology of Applied Linguistics
• Post-editing, MT literacy and Quality Assurance in Multilingual Text Production
• Communication Studies: Multilingualism in the Swiss Media, The Language Industry of the Future
• Research methods: Observation and Behavioral Measurement
• Emotional Intelligence and Career Design in the Language and Communication Professions

Experience

• Lecturer, research associate
  Institute of Translation and Interpreting, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  02 / 2018 - 06 / 2022
• Postdoctoral researcher
  Language & Cognition Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London
  05 / 2016 - 12 / 2017
• Visiting researcher
  Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology, Department of International Business Communication, Copenhagen Business School
  10 / 2015 - 03 / 2016
• Translator (English/French/Italian - German)
  Freelance
  01 / 2007 - 08 / 2015
• Lecturer, teaching and research assistant, boursière d'excellence
  Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva
  09 / 2006 - 08 / 2013
• Scientific traineeships
  Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva; Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychology, Geneva University Hospitals
  10 / 2006 - 07 / 2010
• Professional Traineeships
  European Commission, Directorate General for Translation, Brussels; Swiss Federal Chancellery, Central Language Services, Bern; Groupe Mutuel Health Insurance, Communications and translation department, Martigny
  07 / 2005 - 08 / 2007

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD (summa cum laude) / Psychology of Language & Translation Studies (Title: "The influence of emotion on language performance")
  University of Geneva
  07 / 2010 - 09 / 2014
• Doctoral school / Affective Sciences
  University of Geneva
  07 / 2010 - 09 / 2013
• Master of Advanced Studies / Psycholinguistics
  University of Geneva
  09 / 2006 - 07 / 2008
• Master of Arts / Specialized Translation (English/French/Italian - German)
  University of Geneva
  09 / 2002 - 07 / 2006

Continuing Education

• CAS in Higher and Professional Education
  Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, ZHAW School of Management and Law
  12 / 2022
• Intensive Course in Translation Technology
  Centre for Translation Studies, University College London
  08 / 2017

Network

Membership of networks

COST Action CA19102 - Language in the Human Machine Era (LITHME)

Media presence

• Technologie und Sprache - Stirbt die Fremdsprache aus? Deutschlandfunk Kultur, April 2018
• Get in touch with your feelings (or emotions) – Troublesome terps: The podcast covering topics from interpreting space and the wider world of languages

Projects

• Digital Literacy Skills in University Contexts (DigLit) / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Zürcher Zulassungskurs: Übersetzen für Behörden und Gerichte / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Übersetzungsapps für Pflegekräfte aus dem Ausland / Team member / Project completed
• Schulkommunikation mit fremdsprachigen Erziehungsberechtigten / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Use of machine translation in healthcare / Project leader / Project completed
• AI-Literacy und Post-Editing-Trainings für Sprachendienste in multilingualen Unternehmen / Project leader / Project completed
• Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT) / Team member / Project completed
• Discourse analysis on Antibiotic Resistance (French linguistic usage) / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  A new role for translators and trainers: MT literacy consultants.

  The Interpreter and Translator Trainer.

  17(3), pp. 393-411.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2023.2237328

• Klimova, Blanka; Pikhart, Marcel; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline; Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina,

  2022.

  Neural machine translation in foreign language teaching and learning: a systematic review.

  Education and Information Technologies.

  28(1), pp. 663-682.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11194-2

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Neural machine translation and language teaching : possible implications for the CEFR.

  Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée.

  2021(114), pp. 47-66.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-1030137

• Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Lehr, Caroline; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea,

  2021.

  Stress, cognitive, emotional and ergonomic demands in interpreting and translation.

  Cognitive Linguistic Studies.

  8(2), pp. 404-439.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00084.gie

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Andermatt, Katrin; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline,

  2020.

  Cognitive load in processing ELF : translators, interpreters, and other multilinguals.

  Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.

  9(2), pp. 217-238.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2020-2039

• Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline; Boos, Michael; Kobi, Matthias; Jäncke, Lutz; Elmer, Stefan,

  2020.

  Cognitive load in relation to non-standard language input.

  Translation, Cognition & Behavior.

  3(2), pp. 263-286.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00044.alb

• Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine; Lehr, Caroline, eds.,

  2022.

  The psychology of translation : an interdisciplinary approach.

  Milton:

  Routledge.

  ISBN 9780367690595.

• Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Improving the emotional intelligence of translators : a roadmap for an experimental training intervention.

  1st edition.

  London:

  Palgrave Macmillan.

  Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting.

  ISBN 978-3-030-88859-6.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88860-2

• Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Translation studies, translation practices and emotion

  .

  In:

  Schiewer, Gesine Leonore; Altarriba, Jeanette; Bee, Chin Ng, eds.,

  Language and emotion : an international handbook. Volume 2.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 1298-1319.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670851-030

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Mehrsprachigkeit und Technologie : Who's lost in translation?

  .

  In:

  ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik, ed.,

  Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 118-132.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748796

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen,

  2021.

  Situated translators : cognitive load and the role of emotions

  .

  In:

  Muñoz Martin, Ricardo; Sun, Sanjun; Li, Defeng, eds.,

  Advances in Cognitive Translation Studies.

  Singapore:

  Springer.

  pp. 47-65.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2070-6_3

• Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Translation, emotion and cognition

  .

  In:

  Alves, Fabio; Jakobsen, Arnt Lykke, eds.,

  The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition.

  New York:

  Routledge.

  pp. 294-309.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315178127-20

• Lehr, Caroline; Hvelplund, Kristian T.,

  2020.

  Emotional experts : influences of emotion on the allocation of cognitive resources during translation

  .

  In:

  Muñoz Martín, Ricardo; Halverson, Sandra, eds.,

  Multilingual Mediated Communication and Cognition.

  New York:

  Routledge.

  pp. 44-68.

  Yearbook of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS).

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2021.

  Machine translation literacy : a panorama of practices at Swiss universities and implications for language teaching [paper].

  In:

  Zoghlami, Naouel; Brudermann, Cédric; Sarré, Cedric; Grosbois, Muriel; Bradley, Linda; Thouësny, Sylvie, eds.,

  CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021.

  EUROCALL 2021 : CALL & Professionalisation, Paris (online), 25-27 August 2021.

  Research-publishing.net.

  pp. 80-87.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1313

• Hvelplund, Kristian T.; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  The impact of emotion on comprehension and reformulation during translation [paper].

  In:

  7th IATIS International Conference: The Cultural Ecology of Translation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, 14-17 September 2021.

• Lehr, Caroline; Kramer, Iris; Delorme Benites, Alice; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Sager, Daniela,

  2023.

  Übersetzungsapps für Pflegende aus dem Ausland : Bedarf – Potenzial – Risiken.

  In:

  Schwerpunkt Angewandte Gerontologie: Mehr Kraft für die Pflege - Massnahmen gegen den Personalmangel, ZHAW Hochschulbibliothek, Winterthur, Schweiz, 7. Dezember 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  Innovation in den Sprachberufen : neue Wege, neue Aufgaben.

  In:

  KOSD Vollversammlung / Assemblée plénière CISL, Schweizerische Bundeskanzlei, Bern, Schweiz, 9. November 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2023.

  «Machine Translation Literacy» als digitale Kompetenz in der Gesundheitskommunikation.

  In:

  7. Fachtagung des Internationalen Netzwerks Gesundheitskommunikation, Hamburg, Deutschland, 20.-21. Oktober 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Summers, Elana,

  2023.

  Post-editing raw MT output : definition and (affective) considerations for language teaching.

  In:

  International Conference and Teacher Training Conference: The Wider Implications of Machine Translation, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 15-16 June 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Schaub-Torsello, Romina,

  2023.

  Machine translation literacy in university contexts : survey data analysis.

  In:

  12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,

  2023.

  Machine translation in healthcare settings : potential, limitations and ethical implications.

  In:

  NPIT6 Book of Abstracs.

  6th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 25-27 May 2023.

  Available from: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/npit6/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2024/03/Book-of-Abstracts-NEW-WEBSITE.pdf

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Steele, Elizabeth; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  What we (all) do in the shadows : language learning in the era of machine translation.

  In:

  3rd International Conference ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (LITHME), Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 15-16 May 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  Mehrsprachige Schreibprozesse unter Verwendung künstlicher Intelligenz : welche Möglichkeiten eröffnet neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung? Welche Risiken birgt sie?.

  In:

  Schweizer Schreibtag: «Schreiben im mehrsprachigen Kontext», Basel, Schweiz, 29. April 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2022.

  Core skills for new language industry profiles.

  In:

  Translating Europe Forum 2022, Brussels, Belgium, 9-11 November 2022.

• Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Haller, Mara; Lehr, Caroline; Noghrechi, Hasti; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2022.

  Développer une approche raisonnée de la traduction automatique dans les hautes écoles suisses.

  In:

  12e Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Lausanne, Suisse, 7 Novembre 2022.

• Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli, Sara; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2022.

  Maschinelle Übersetzung und automatische Textgenerierung : was ist wichtig für den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz in der Lehre?.

  In:

  Swissuniversities Netzwerktreffen: Innovation in der Lehre, Olten, Schweiz, 28. Oktober 2022.

• Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Change management and job satisfaction : the role of soft skills for translators today and in the future.

  In:

  Directorate General for Translation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 22 September 2022.

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2022.

  Exploring the role of MT in science news flows.

  In:

  10th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST22), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Machine translation literacy für den DaF/DaZ-Unterricht : Chancen und Herausforderungen.

  In:

  Ledafis Jahrestagung, Basel, 6.-7. Mai 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth; Franciello, Laura,

  2022.

  I looked it up in DeepL : online dictionaries and online machine translation.

  In:

  Tralogy3 : Tralogy: Human translation and natural language processing: Forging a new consensus?, Paris, France, 7-8 April 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Steele, Elizabeth; Cotelli, Sara; Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Let’s talk about MT : raising awareness in Swiss universities.

  In:

  #TQ2022 : Traduction & Qualité, « Comment enseigner (avec) la traduction automatique ? », online, 28 January 2022.

  Available from: https://webtv.univ-lille.fr/video/11745/-journee-d%E2%80%99etudes-%C2%ABtraduction-qualite-%C2%BB-maureen-ehrensberger-dow-alice-delorme-benites

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Machine translation in Swiss universities : a first look into current practices.

  In:

  COST Action 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' online conference, 20 October 2021.

• Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2021.

  Machine translation in the language classroom : Swiss data.

  In:

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 35.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf

• Lehr, Caroline; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2021.

  MT literacy as a means of agency and empowerment for translators.

  In:

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 37.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2021.

  Machine translation literacy and language teaching .

  In:

  EUROCALL 2021 : CALL & Professionalisation, Paris (online), 25-27 August 2021.

• Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Designing an experimental training intervention to improve the emotional intelligence of translators.

  In:

  International Symposium on Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction : Affect, Behaviour and Cognition (7th CATIC conference)), London, 16-19 July 2021.

• Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  How can emotion help language mediators to meet 21st century challenges?.

  In:

  International Symposium on Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction : Affect, Behaviour and Cognition (7th CATIC conference)), London, 16-19 July 2021.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  NMT Literacy for future language professionals : changing perceptions.

  In:

  International conference on translation, interpreting and cognition : book of abstracts.

  3rd ICTIC, Forlì, Italy, 2 - 5 November 2021.

  Università di Bologna.

  pp. 16.

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2020.

  NMT literacy at the interface of AI and intercultural intelligence.

  In:

  CIUTI Conference 2020 Artificial Intelligence & Intercultural Intelligence. Actions and interactions in translation, interpreting and target contexts, Online, 9-11 December 2020.

• Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Lehr, Caroline; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen,

  2019.

  Cognitive load in translation : the role of emotions.

  In:

  Translation Process Research: Workshop 6, Murcia, Spain, 21-23 January 2019.

• Lehr, Caroline,

  2019.

  Welche Rolle spielt emotionale Intelligenz für das Übersetzen? : welche Rolle spielt Übersetzen für die emotionale Intelligenz?.

  In:

  Übersetzen als Schlüsselfähigkeit im europäischen Dialog: Der Körper als Ressource für Sprachgefühl und Empathie, Loveno di Menaggio, Italien, 18. - 21. November 2019.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Mouthon, Michael; Khateb, Asaid; Lazeyras, François; Pegna, Alan J.; Lee-Jahnke, Hannelore; Lehr, Caroline; Annoni, Jean-Marie, 2019. Second-language proficiency modulates the brain language control network in bilinguals: an even-related fMRI-study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 2020; 23(2):251-264.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2017. How can affective neuroscience shape the language classroom? A critical approach to examples of brain-based learning elements. In: Framing Minds Conference – English and Affective Neuroscience, October 2017, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Naples.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2016. Emotion, motivation, stress, uncertainty. A closer look at the concepts and an interdisciplinary research agenda. In: Congress of the European Society of Translation Studies (EST), September 2016, Aarhus.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2015. Emotional intelligence skills as a key to enhance translators’ employability and performance. In: Translating Europe Forum, Directorate General for Translation, European Commission, October 2015, Brussels.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2014. The relevance of emotion for professional translation and translation studies. In: Baur, Wolfram; Eichner, Brigitte; Kalina, Sylvia; Kessler, Norma; Mayer, Felix; Ørsted, Jeanette (eds.), Man vs. Machine? Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Mensch und Maschine, Proceedings of the XXth FIT World Congress. Berlin: BDÜ Fachverlag, pp. 601-606.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2014. What are emotions? And why should translators care about them? In: XXth World Congress of the International Federation of Translators, August 2014, Berlin.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2014. When emotion dictates how we say what we say - Integrating evidence for influences of emotional states on language processing. In: Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM), 12-January 2014, Champéry.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2014. The influence of emotion on language performance - Study of a neglected determinant of decision-making in professional translators. PhD-Dissertation, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting/Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva.
• Lehr, Caroline; Shuman, Vera, 2013. The influence of emotion on key performance indicators in professional translation. In: Biannual meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion, 20-July 2013, Berkeley.
• Ogarkova, Anna; Soriano, Cristina; Lehr, Caroline, 2012. Naming Feeling. Exploring the equivalence of emotion terms in five European languages. In: Wilson, Paul, ed., Dynamicity in Emotion Concepts (Lodz Studies in Language Vol. 27). Frankfurt, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 253-284.
• Ogarkova, Anna; Soriano, Cristina; Lehr, Caroline, 2012. Cultural specificity in labelling emotional scenarios: a case study of ANGER, SHAME, PRIDE and GUILT in five European languages. In: Shakhovskyy, Victor I., ed., Human communication: Strategies, Motives, Tactics. Volgograd: Peremena, pp. 71-84.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2012. Beyond Cognition - Affective responses to feedback and their impact on translation performance in a group of Master students. In: DidTrad – International Conference on Research into the Didactics of Translation, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, July 2012, Barcelona.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2012. The happier, the better? Exploring the impact of positive and negative affect on performance in translation. In: International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, June 2012, Barcelona.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2011. Emotions in Translation: Towards an empirical investigation. In: International Conference on Translator and Interpreter Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, June 2011, Beijing.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2010. Psycholinguistik, Übersetzungswissenschaft und Expertiseforschung im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Forschung. In: Gile, Daniel; Hansen, Gyde; Pokorn, Nike, eds., Why Translation Studies matters. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 211-221.
• Soriano, Cristina; Ogarkova, Anna; Lehr, Caroline, 2010. Different ways of being angry. Intra-categorical variation in the metaphorical conceptualization of emotion. In: Figuring the World, 7th AELCO International Conference, October 2010, Almagro.
• Khateb, Asaid; Mouthon, Michael; Simon, Stéphane R., Pegna, Alan J.; Lazeyras, F.; Lehr, Caroline; Lee-Jahnke, Hannelore; Annoni, Jean-Marie, 2010. Semantic processing in bilinguals: an event-related fMRI investigation using a word categorization task. In: Human Brain Mapping Meeting (HMB), June 2010, Barcelona.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2009. Limits and perspectives in interdisciplinary fMRI research on bilingualism: a case study. In: Eye-to-IT Conference, Copenhagen Business School, May 2009, Copenhagen.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2007. Die Förderung und Nutzung der Automatisierung von Teilprozessen in der Didaktik - Am Beispiel eines Kurses der Übersetzungsmethodik. Translation Studies in the New Millenium, Vol. 5, pp. 91-102.
• Lehr, Caroline, 2007. Semantische Priming-Effekte bei Übersetzern. In: Schmitt, Peter A. & Jüngst, Heike (eds.), Translationsqualität (Leipziger Studien zur Angewandten Linguistik und Translatologie, Bd. 5). Frankfurt, New York: Peter Lang, CD-Rom.

Other publications

• What's the story behind? The significance of language in the multimodal communication of emotion. Article in ‘Views on Marylin. Catalogue of the exposition Phillipe Halsman, Astonish me!’. Lausanne: Musée de l'Elysée, 2014.
• Grim or Grimace? Cultural relativism in expression and perception of emotion. Article in ‘Catalogue of the exposition Stand-up – Reporting Live from Gound Zero’. Lausanne: Musée de l'Elysée, 2012.

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