Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

email: irene.ranzato@uniroma1.it
phone: 0688378084
building: Marco Polo
room: 340

IRENE RANZATO is associate professor of English Language and Translation, in the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia at Rome Sapienza University. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies (Imperial College London). Since 2018 che has been Honorary Research Associate at UCL (University College London). She is a member of the committee of the doctorate in English Literatures, Language, Culture and Translation at Sapienza University. She has been a member of various international research groups and presented papers at numerous international conferences. Her interests focus on audiovisual translation, on the study of regional and social varieties of English and on the intersection between language and ideologies in fictional dialogue. She is a co-founder of the Tradac research group on audiovisual translation and accessibility and she is vice-editor of the journal Status Quaestionis. Among her publications, the monographs: Translating Culture Specific References on Television: The Case of Dubbing (Routledge 2016), devoted to the analysis of the translation of cultural elements in three television series of different genres, and Queen's English?: Gli accenti dell'Inghilterra (Bulzoni 2017). She is also the co-editor of books and special issues of "fascia A" journals. Among the most recent: Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation (Routledge 2018); Mediating Lingua-cultural Scenarios in AVT (numero monografico di Cultus); Audiovisual Translation: Intersections (numero monografico di Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice 2019); Reassessing Dubbing: Historical Approaches and Current Trends (Benjamins 2019). She recently published the chapters: “The problem with culture”, in The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility (2019) e "The sexist translator and the feminist heroine: politically incorrect language in films and TV", in The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender, edited by Luise von Flotow and Hala Kamal (2020), and edited, with Donatella Montini, the volume The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts (Routledge 2021). 

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