Jean Nitzke

Jean Nitzke is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, University of Agder, Norway. She specializes in post-editing machine translation, cognitive translation studies, and translation technologies, with a focus on specialized translation (technical, medical, business, legal domains) and AI integration in translation workflows.

• Current teaching: Specialised translation, Translation technologies, and Language technology & generative AI
• Research groups: Agder Forum for Translation Studies, Experimental linguistics

Her 2025-2024 research explores low-diffusion language translation technologies, industry post-editing practices, and machine translation evaluation for under-researched pairs. Earlier works (2022-2021) analyze cognitive processes in post-editing, intralingual corpora for Easy German, and hybrid translation workflows in education. She collaborates with Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Carmen Canfora, and Katharina Oster, among others.

Key 2019 publications include empirical studies on problem-solving activities in post-editing, training digital competencies via blended learning, and risk management in machine translation workflows. Her work bridges academic research and industry applications, emphasizing human-AI collaboration in translation.