This volume congregates the communications of the colloquium organised by the Centre for English Studies and the Centre of Comparative Studies of the College of Letters of the University of Lisbon. Considering the emancipation of Translation Studies as an irreversible fact “it shows in short how a sub-branch of one discipline transformed itself into a trans-discipline, capable to mobilize the know-how of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, literary theory, cultural studies, and historiography, to construct, in a critical way, a new objective by means of a multiplicity of epistemological protocols”.