Staff
Research Interests
Research interests of staff directly associated with the MA in Translation Theory and Practice are listed below.
Daniel Abondolo
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian Studies, Department of East European Languages and Culture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Research interests: Hungarian and comparative metrics; general linguistics; translation and norms.
Publications include The Uralic Languages (1998) and A Poetics Handbook: Verbal Art in the European Tradition (2000).
Vanda Broughton
Lecturer, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Research interests: Digital information sources for the humanities
Paul Davis
Lecturer, Department of English
Research interests: Poetic translation in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England; Classicism; religious culture in the seventeenth century.
Publications include Translation and the Poet's Life: The Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726 (2008).
Theo Hermans
Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature, Department of Dutch
Research interests: Translation theory and history; comparative literature; Renaissance studies; Dutch and Flemish literature.
Publications include Translation in Systems (1999), Translating Others (ed., 2006) and The Conference of the Tongues (2007). Translator of H.C. ten Berge and Hugo Claus.
Geraldine Horan
Lecturer in German Language, Department of German
Research interests: Language, gender and ideology; language teaching.
Publications include ‘Female Identity in National Socialist Discourse’ in Proper Words in Proper Places (2001) and ‘Leaving the Classroom Behind (with C. Fandrych) in King’s English (2000).
Tim Mathews
Professor of French, Department of French
Research interests: Verbal and visual art; the avant-garde; Surrealism; literary theory and translation; representation and identity; psychoanalysis.
Publications include Reading Apollinaire (1990) and Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France (2000). Translator of Gérard Macé.
Mark Shuttleworth
Course Leader, Department of Translation, Imperial College
Publications include A Dictionary of Translation Studies (1997).
Claire Warwick
Lecturer, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Research interests: Humanities computing; electronic publishing; the information society.
