This is a list of selected publications. For a full list, see my Google Scholar profile.
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Peer reviewed journal articles
In press
Hinderks, L., De Meulder, M., Jaberg, R., Sijm, N., & Smits, C. (in press). From background knowledge to foundational practice: embedding Deaf Studies and ethics in sign language interpreter education in the Netherlands. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer.
Published
2025
- De Meulder, M., Murray, J. J., & Kusters, A.. This is our rhythm: academic becoming and realignment in deaf space. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
- De Meulder, M. Deaf in AI: AI language technologies and the erosion of linguistic rights. Language and Law.
Open Access PDF - Ritmeester, J., Sumer, B., Boonstra, M., De Meulder, M., van der Aa, B., & Roelofsen, F. Navigating sign language learning: insights from hearing parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
Open Access PDF
2024
- De Meulder, M., & Stone, C. Finally free from the interpreter’s gaze? Uncovering the hidden labor of gaze work for deaf consumers of interpreter services. International Journal of Interpreter Education, 15(1), 87-98.
Open Access PDF - De Meulder, M., & Sijm, N. “I feel a bit more of a conduit now”: sign language interpreters coping and adapting during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond”. Interpreting and Society.
Open Access PDF
2023
- Esselink, L., Roelofsen, F., Dotlacil, J., Mende-Gillings, S., De Meulder, M., Sijm, N., and Smeijers, A. Exploring automatic text-to-sign translation in a healthcare setting. Universal Access in the Information Society.
Open Access PDF - Haualand, H., De Meulder, M., & Napier, J. Unpacking sign language interpreting as a social institution. The missing macro perspective? Introduction to special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00055.hau [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
- De Meulder, M. Book Review. Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 27(1), 95-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12583 [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
2021
- Van Mensel, L., & De Meulder, M. (eds.) Introduction: Exploring the multilingual family repertoire: ethnographic approaches. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 42(8).
Open Access PDF - De Meulder, M., & Murray, J. J. The Illusion of Choice in Inclusive Education. International Journal of Inclusive Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2021.1956607 [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
- Kusters, A., De Meulder, M., & Napier, J. (2021). Family language policy on holiday: four multilingual signing and speaking families travelling together. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42(8), 698-715.
Open Access PDF - De Meulder, M., & Haualand, H. Sign language interpreting services: A quick fix for inclusion? Translation and Interpreting Studies, 16(1), 19-40.
Open Access PDF
2020
- De Meulder, M. Transformations in Deaf Studies. Implications for sign language policy, revitalization and rights. Deaf Studies Digital Journal, 5.
- Snoddon, K., & De Meulder, M. Introduction: Ideologies in sign language vitality and revitalisation. Language & Communication, 74. DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/104H9R5DC62 [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
- De Meulder, M., & Birnie, I. Language diaries as a research method in the study of language use and language choice: the case of Flemish Sign Language and Scottish Gaelic. Language Awareness. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2020.1781873 [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
2019
- Kusters, A., & De Meulder, M. Language portraits: investigating embodied multilingual and multimodal repertoires. Forum Qualitative Social Research, 20(3).
Open Access PDF - De Meulder, M., Kusters, A., Moriarty, E., & Murray, J. J. Describe, don’t prescribe. The Practice and Politics of Translanguaging in the Context of Deaf Signers. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Published online 21 March 2019.
Open Access PDF
2018
- De Meulder, M., Napier, J., & Stone, C. Designated or preferred? A deaf academic and two signed language interpreters working together for a PhD defense: A case study of best practice. International Journal of Interpreter Education, 10(2).
Open Access PDF. - Murray, J. J., Snoddon, K., De Meulder, M., & Underwood, K. Intersectional Inclusion for Deaf Learners: Moving Beyond General Comment no. 4 on Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. International Journal of Inclusive Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2018.1482013 [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
- De Meulder, M. “So, why do you sign?” Deaf and hearing new signers, their motivation, and revitalisation policies for sign languages. Applied Linguistics Review. [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
- Murray, J. J., De Meulder, M., & le Maire, D. An Education in Sign Language as a Human Right? The Sensory Exception in the Legislative History and Ongoing Interpretation of Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Human Rights Quarterly, 40(1), 37-60. DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2018.0001 [paywalled 🔒] · [request a copy]
2017
- De Meulder, M., & Murray, J.J. Buttering their Bread on Both Sides? The Recognition of Sign Languages and the Aspirations of Deaf Communities. Language Problems and Language Planning, 41(2), 136-158.
2016
- De Meulder, M. (2016) Promotion in Times of Endangerment: The Sign Language Act in Finland. Language Policy, 16(2), 189-208.
2015
- De Meulder, M. A Barking Dog That Never Bites? The British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill. Sign Language Studies, 15(4), 446-472.
- De Meulder, M. The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages. Sign Language Studies, 15(4), 498-506.
Preprints
- De Meulder, M., Van Landuyt, D., & Omardeen, R. (2024). Lessons in co-creation: the inconvenient truths of inclusive sign language technology development. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13171
Special issues
- Haualand, H., De Meulder, M., & Napier, J. (eds.) (2023). Unpacking sign language interpreting as a social institution: Politics, ethics and ideologies. Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies.
- De Meulder, M., & Snoddon, K. (Eds.) (September 2020). Ideologies in sign language vitality and revitalisation. Special issue of Language & Communication, 74.
- Van Mensel, L., & De Meulder, M. (Eds.) (2021). Exploring the multilingual family repertoire: ethnographic approaches. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Conference papers
2025
- Xia, Z., De Meulder, M., Otterspeer, G., & Roelofsen, F. User Acceptance of Augmented Remote Sign Language Interpreting. In ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Berlin.
Open Access PDF - Angelini, R., De Meulder, M., & Spiel, K. Speculating Deaf Tech: Reimagining Technologies Centering Deaf People. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). ACM, New York, NY, USA. *Best Paper Award*
Open Access PDF
2024
- Desai, A., De Meulder, M., Hochgesang, J., Kocab, A., & Lu, A. Systemic Biases in Sign Language AI Research: A Deaf-Led Call to Reevaluate Research Agendas. In LREC-COLING 2°24, 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources (pp. 54-65). Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL.
Open Access PDF
2022
- Van Gemert, B., Cokart, R., Esselink, L., De Meulder, M., Sijm, N., & Roelofson, F. (2022). First steps towards a signing avatar for railway travel announcements in the Netherlands. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT 7), pp. 109-116. LREC 2022, Marseille.
Open Access PDF
2021
- De Meulder, M. Is “good enough” good enough? Ethical and responsible development of sign language technologies. Conference proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages. #AT4SSL2021
Open Access PDF - Roelofsen, F., Esselink, L., Mende-Gillings, S., De Meulder, M., Sijm, N., & Smeijers, A. (2021). Online Evaluation of Text-to-sign Translation by Deaf End Users: Some Methodological Recommendations. In D. Shterionov (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Machine Translation Summit, 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (pp. 82-87).
Open Access PDF
Edited volumes
- De Meulder, Maartje, Joseph J. Murray, and Rachel McKee (2019) The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World. Multilingual Matters.
- Kusters, Annelies, Maartje De Meulder, and Dai O’Brien (2017) Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chapters in edited volumes
In preparation
Haualand, H., De Meulder, M. Cripping sign language interpreting – a social institution reinforcing exclusion. In E. Monzó-Nebot & C.D. Mellinger (eds.), Public Translation and Interpreting Studies: Goals, Paths, and Epistemologies.
Snoddon, K., Murray, J.J., & De Meulder, M. Rights, or regression? Inclusive education of deaf learners two decades post-CRPD. In G. De Beco & F. Felder (eds)., Unpacking the right to inclusive education: issues and controversies. Bloomsbury.
In press
Snoddon, K., & De Meulder, M. Language Policy and Management for Sign Languages. To appear in Lo Bianco, J., Spolsky, B., & Lundberg, A. (Eds). Research in Language Policy and Management. Bloomsbury.
Published
2024
- Angelini, R., Spiel, K., and De Meulder, M. Bridging Deaf Critique and Technological Practice – Understanding the Gap. To appear in A. Way, D. Shterionov, C. Rathmann & L. Leeson (eds.), Sign Language Machine Translation. Springer.
2022
- De Meulder, M., & Kusters, A. (2022). Experiencing Multimodal Languaging: The Use of Language Portraits with Deaf and Hearing Multilingual Signers. In J. Purkarthofer & M.-C. Flubacher (eds.), Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred approaches. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
- Kusters, A., De Meulder, M., & Moriarty, E. (2022). Researching language attitudes in signing communities. In R. Kircher & L. Zipp (eds.), Research Methods in Language Attitudes (pp 286-292). Cambridge University Press.
- Chua, M., De Meulder, M., Geer, L., Henner, J., Hou, L., Kubus, O., O’Brien, D., & Robinson, O. (2022). 1001 Small Victories: Deaf Academics and Impostor Syndrome. In M. Addison & M. Breeze (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
2021
- De Meulder, M., Kusters, A., & Napier, J. Researching family language policy in multilingual deaf-hearing families: Using autoethnographic, visual and narrative methods. In L. Wright & C. Higgins (eds.), Diversifying family language policy: Families, methodologies, and speakers. Bloomsbury.
2019
- De Meulder, M., Murray, J.J., & McKee, R. Introduction: The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages. Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World. In The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages. Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World, ed. by Maartje De Meulder, Joseph J. Murray and Rachel McKee. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
- De Meulder, M., and Thierry Haesenne (2019) A Belgian Compromise? Recognising French-Belgian Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language. In The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages. Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World, ed. by Maartje De Meulder, Joseph J. Murray and Rachel McKee. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
2018
- De Meulder, M., Krausneker, V., Turner, G.H., & Conama, J.B. Sign Language Communities. In The Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities, ed. by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Bernadette O’Rourke. Palgrave Macmillan.
2017
- De Meulder, M. The Emergence of a Deaf Academic Professional Class during the British Deaf Resurgence. In Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars, ed. by Annelies Kusters, Maartje De Meulder, and Dai O’Brien. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kusters, A., De Meulder, M., & O’Brien, D. Innovations in Deaf Studies. Critically Mapping the Field. In Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars, ed. Annelies Kusters, Maartje De Meulder, and Dai O’Brien. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Research reports
De Meulder, Maartje; Pouliot, Oliver; & Gebruers, Karolien. Remote Sign Language Interpreting in Times of COVID-19. (Open Access). University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.
See also interview with researchers.
Peer-reviewed working papers
Kusters, Annelies, Maartje De Meulder, Michele Friedner, and Steve Emery (2015) On “diversity” and “inclusion”: exploring paradigms for Sign Language Peoples’ rights. MMG Working Paper 15-02.
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