Freelance translator (German to English)
and editor (English) for publishing houses,
scholars, cultural institutions, and universities

Autonomous University of Barcelona
Bard College Berlin 
Berlin University of the Arts
European University Institute
FH Potsdam
Galerie Poll Berlin
Hamilton College
Humboldt University, Berlin
IRCAM
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
ngkb
New York University
Pusan National University
Reaktor art space
Saarland University
Suhrkamp Verlag
Technical University of Berlin

University of Arts Linz
University of Basel
University of Bielefeld
University of Cologne
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Erfurt
University of Freiburg
University of Konstanz
University of Mainz
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)
University of Osnabrück
University of Potsdam
University of Valencia
University of Vienna
University of Weimar
University of Zurich

UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA, 2024/2025.

Institut für Zeitgeschichte (IfZ). The Persecution and Murder of the Jews, 1933−1945. Document translator for multiple volumes. Ongoing.

Oliver Flügel-Martinsen. Critical Political Theory: Interrogating Contemporary Politics. Forthcoming.

Markus Messling. Universality after Universalism: On Francophone Literatures of the Present. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2023. Open access.

Markus Messling. Philology and the Appropriation of the World: Champollion’s Hieroglyphs. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor and Marko Pajević, with Karina Berger. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Juliane Vogel. Making an Entrance: Appearing on the Stage from Racine to Nietzsche. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor with Benjamin R. Trivers. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. With a translator’s introduction by Michael Thomas Taylor.

Florian Sprenger and Gottfried Schnödl.Uexküll’s Surroundings: Nazi Entanglements of Umwelt Theory. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor and Wayne Yung. Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2022.

Susanne Rau. History, Space, and Place. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2019.

Dirik von Oettingen. Fun, Fresh, Fantastic: The World on an Orange Crate. Postdam: vacat Verlag, 2025.

Christoph Mäckler/Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst e. V. Urbanism as Civic Art: A Handbook of 150 Exemplary German Precedents. 4 vols. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2025.

Ellen Kugler, Shira Levy Benyemini, and Sharon Golan. The Liebling Haus. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2024.

raumlabor. Polylemma. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor, Wayne Yung, et al. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2024.

Katrin Richter. Else’s Story: The Life of the World’s First Woman Stockbroker. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. LUCIA Verlag: Weimar, 2023.

Gerda Breuer. HerStories in Graphic Design. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2023.

Zara Pfeifer. ICC Berlin. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2022.

Peter Ortner. The Essence of Berlin-Tegel. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2020.

The Sound of Architecture. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2019.

Wolfgang Schäche, Daniel Ralf Schmitz, David Pessier. Building Berlin: Developers Who Shaped the Emerging Metropolis. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Berlin: jovis Verlag, 2019.

University of Basel. “University history since 1460.”

Reaktor. Art space, Vienna.

Website for the DFG Research Training Group “Knowledge in the Arts,” Berlin University of the Arts.

Website pages for the University of Potsdam and the University of Osnabrück.

Essays and others texts by Evelyn Anuß, Hans Danuser, Susanne Foellmer, Bettina Gockel, Barbara Hahn, Jan-Christoph Hauschild, HAU – Hebbel Theater Berlin, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Rainer Herrn, Oliver Kautny, Albrecht Koschorke, Christoph König, Kathrin Peters, Susanne Rau, Samuel Salzborn, Schelling Architekturstiftung, Claudia Schmölders, Christiane Solte-Gresser, Viktoria Tkaczyk, Anke te Hessen, Sigried Weigel, Juliane Vogel, and others.

Bettina Gockel. Photographic Thought Pieces: Kenneth C. & Sabina R. Korfmann-Bodenmann: “Through Different Lenses,” Sixteen Portfolios, 2019–2022. Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2024. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1377.

Christina Benninghaus, Benno Gammerl, Maren Lorenz, Martin Lücke, Xenia von Tippelskirch. „Gender History Challenges and Opportunities, Perspectives and Strategies: A Position Paper.” Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor. Bielefeld: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG), Universität Bielefeld, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2983040.

Leonardo’s Intellectual Cosmos. Exhibition catalogue. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2021. Two essays. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor.

Post-pandemic Urbanism. Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2021. Twelve essays. Translated by Michael Thomas Taylor and Benjamin R. Trivers.

Cultural Techniques: Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives. Edited by Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn, and Wolfgang Struck. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. Translation of twelve essays and editing of all essays in the volume, including texts by Bettine Menke, Nicholas Pethes, and Bernhard Siegert in addition to those of the volume’s editors. Essay fields range from literary studies to philosophy, sociology, media studies, and the history of science.

Anecdotal Modernity: Making and Unmaking History. Edited by James Dorson, Florian Sedlmeier, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, and Birte Wege. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. Translation of six essays including texts by Inka Mülder-Bach and Susanne von Falkenhausen.

The Photobook in Art and Society. Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2019. Eight essays.