Anna Gil-Bardají, Pilar Orero and Sara Rovira-Esteva lecture at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. As experts in translation of many genres such as poetry, films and documentaries from Arabic, English and Mandarin, they have a common interest in the body of external apparatus which accompany texts: from drawings or facial gestures to orthotypography. They have published widely in journals and are part of research teams in their different areas of interest.