Dr Gabriela Saldanha MPhil, PhD

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 2970
Email: g.saldanha@bham.ac.uk

Address: Ashley Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am a Lecturer in Translation Studies in the department of Modern Languages. I teach translation theory and research methods on the MAs in Translation Studies (distance and campus-based). My research interests are: translation stylistics and the artistic nature of translation, the reception of translations and their impact on literary landscapes, and the relationship between gender identity and translation.

I have a strong interest in research methodology and I am currently collaborating with artist and researcher Heather Connelly to explore the impact of artistic research on translation studies. As part of this project, I have participated in the following events and performances:

Escurrir, a collaborative script performed by Heather Connelly and Gabriela Saldanha and presented at: Translation as Collaboration, The Poettrio Experiment, Newcastle University, 20 July 2017
A video of Escurrir, featuring a Mandarin addition by Annie Xu, was presented at Researching Translation & Interpreting The Challenge & Promise of Interdisciplinary, Baker Centre for Translation today and Intercultural Studies, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 13 October 2017
Linguistic hospitality, a performance at the Translation Studies Annual Research Forum, Birmingham Centre for Translation, 15 May 2017
This is me, script in English and Spanish developed by Heather Connelly with translation by Gabriela Saldanha performed at InDialogue December 2016

Qualifications

I have a degree in Legal Translation from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, an MPhil in Translation Studies from UMIST (now University of Manchester), and a PhD in Translation Studies from Dublin City University.

Biography

I joined the University of Birmingham in 2007. Before that I worked as a Lecturer in Translation and Language Engineering at Imperial College London; I lectured part time at Dublin City University, Ireland, and I worked as a research assistant on the Translational English Corpus project at UMIST (now University of Manchester). I also worked for several years as a free-lance translator.

Teaching

I convene and teach modules on Translation Theory, Corpus Linguistics for Translators and Research Methodologhies at MA level.

Postgraduate supervision

I supervise MPhil and PhD students on a range of subjects and would welcome the opportunity to work with PhD students in the following areas:

Translational stylistics
The circulation, marketing and reception of translated fiction
Transcultural reading practices
The translation of South American literature into English
Gender identity and translation
Art practice and translation
The application of new methods to translation studies research

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Research

My research interests are: translation stylistics and the artistic nature of translation, the reception of translations and their impact on literary landscapes, and the relationship between gender identity and translation. I have a strong interest in research methodology and I am currently exploring the impact of artistic research on translation studies.

Other activities

Co-editor (with Mona Baker) of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies
Member of the editorial board of the Approaches to Translation Studies series, Brill
Member of the Research Group European Parliamentary Comparable and Parallel Corpora, based at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Member of the ARTIS (Advancing Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies) Steering Committee
Founding editor (with Marion Winters) and current member of the editorial board of New Voices in Translation Studies, a refereed online journal of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal InTRAlinea