Yana Shabana

BA: Hebron University, Palestine

MA: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

I completed my BA in English language and literature at Hebron University in Palestine. In 2014, I was granted the Higher Education Scholarship in Palestine scheme (HESPAL) to pursue my MA degree in the translation theory and practice at SOAS. Between the years 2016-2018, I taught and co-ordinated undergraduate-level English language courses at Al-Najah National University (Nablus, Palestine). In 2018, I was awarded the HESPAL scholarship to undertake a doctoral project at the University of Birmingham. Under the supervision of Professor Rebecca Gould, I am currently researching the role of translation in political discourse production settler-colonial contexts

2016-2018: English language – Al Najah National University (Palestine)

PhD title

Translation Through the Prism of Settler-Coloniality: Indigenous Elimination, Framed Translation, and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

I am looking into the ideological role translation assumes in a settler colonial setting, with a focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Research interests

• Translation theory
• Settler colonialism
• Indigenous studies
• War literature
• Short story writing
• Corpus linguistics