Research: Current Projects

Translations/Transpositions: the UCL/Mellon Post-doctoral Fellows Programme (2006-11)

An interdisciplinary programme of six two-year fellowships directed by Professor Michael Worton and funded by the Mellon Foundation. This project will examine the following key themes:

1. Old and new models of translation
2. Migration and non-mother-tongue writing
3. 'Intergeneric' translation
4. Intermedia’ translations (i.e. literary works ‘translated’ or transposed into films, operas, art works, etc).
5. Translation as dissemination: Museums and their audiences

1. Word and Image: the role played by visual and texual representations in the constructions of identity
2. Popular Culture and its role in identity formation
3. National, Regional and Individual Identities in a modern European context
4. Nationhood and Sovereignty
5. Stasis and Mobility

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