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I am a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham and I teach across the provision of core and optional modules for the MA programme in Translation Studies. My research interests revolve around Italian-Canadian writing and its translation into Italian and around the role of translation in Italian queer feminist activism. In addition to teaching, I have been working as a ...

• Modernism and the discourses of subversion (comparative approaches)
• Translation studies (especially history of translation)
• Technology-assisted teaching and learning
• Language pedagogy

• Cultural history of C17 and C18 Europe
• Anglo-German cultural relations
• History of translation
• Literary translation
• Gender and translation
• Women intellectuals pre-1900, particularly women translators

• Translation and new media, with particular reference to the Arabic-speaking region
• Translation and popular culture
• Gender and language use in the context of translation

• French and Francophone Literature
• World Literature
• Postcolonial Studies
• Translation in Academia
• Women's Writing
• Environmental Humanities

• corpus-based translation studies in general
• translation and language change (esp. use of diachronic corpora in translation studies)
• translation of tourism texts
• translation of visual material

• Translating National Identity
• The Reception of Catalan Literature in English

I teach Spanish language and translation, drawing on my practice as a literary translator and my background in visual arts. I am interested in creativity in translation, co-translation and the ways that art, translation and text-making can interact.

• Russian poetry (19th-21st Century)
• Russian Formalism and literary theory
• Comparative modernisms
• (Modernist) performance culture  
• Thaw culture
• Urban humanities
• Intersections between literature and new media

•  20th Century Russian poetry (Joseph Brodsky's poetry and auto-translations)
• Genre and translation
• Translation, self-translation and collaborative translation with a specific focus on English to Russian, and Russian to English
• Translation of hybrid texts to majority languages with a focus on the translation of Russophone literature into English

I specialise in training students to become translators. Until very recently, I was the convenor of the MA in Translation Studies (campus and distance) and led to project to update and relaunch the programme. I am also the Director of Taught Admissions for the College of Arts and Law.

I came to Birmingham in 2006, and am based in the Department of Modern Languages. Among a range of teaching and research interests, I am particularly keen to promote the study of French literature and the visual arts, and the interactions between them.

I am an enthusiastic teacher and student of Hispanic Literature and Culture and especially that of the Spanish Golden Age, an era that originated many of the most compelling, sophisticated and influential works in Hispanic literature and art. I also have a long-standing interest in translation, having translated (independently and in collaboration) several golden-age comedias, a quantity of ...

• Chinese Shakespeare
• Translation of religious texts
• Translation of tourism texts
• Gender and translation 
• Literary translation 
• Translation education
• Interpreting training

•  Intercultural pragmatics in translation and interpreting
• Interpreter’s roles and neutrality
• User response to translated texts and audio-visual translation
• Using translation and interpreting in mediation, and cultural influence on mediation.