Mukile Kasongo

• MA in Translation Studies – University of Leicester
• PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education)-University of Warwick
• BA (Hons) in Accounting & Finance - Northumbria University

I worked in the financial sector before completing my BA (2:1) in Accounting and Finance at University of Northumbria (2011). Upon the completion of my BA, I joined the Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme at the University of Warwick. I taught French and Business as part of the programme in local schools and colleges. After moving to Leicester to undertake the MA programme in Translation Studies (French and Russian), I worked part-time as a Russian Customer Advisor for Next directory and as a freelance translator/interpreter for different clients and agencies. I then graduated with the thesis pass mark of 75% (2018). After joining the University of Birmingham. I was offered the possibility to be an hourly-paid lecturer in French at Abingdon & Witney College in Oxfordshire.

• 2019 – 2020: Part-time hourly-paid lecturer in French at Abingdon & Witney College

I am researching the translation of francophone novels by African women into Russian. I spent four years living in Russia and I believes there is a need to study translation involving Russian language and African textualities as little research has been conducted on the import and translation processes of African novels in Russia/Soviet Union. My main interests lie in the intersection of feminist translation, translation theory, linguistic hybridity, Francophone studies, Russian studies, African studies and Postcolonial studies

• Freelance Translator
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
• Participant of Images of Research 2019/2020
• Hourly-paid lecturer