Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

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

Recent publications
2022 "The portrayal of real-life people in audiovisual translation", in Miedzy Oryginałem a Przekładem 55 (1), 11-29.
2022 “Non-standard accents in telecinematic drama: the role of vocal coaching” (con Silvia Bruti), in Textus, Oral Communication in English: Established Trends, Good Practice(s), and Future Perspectives, Annalisa Zanola & John Gooch (eds). 2021 The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts (co-editor Donatella Montini), London/New York: Routledge.
2021 "The Accented Voice in Audiovisual Shakespeare", in Donatella Montini & Irene Ranzato (eds), The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts, London/New York: Routledge.
2021 "An audiovisual topos: the ‘butler’ character", in Maria Pavesi, Serenella Zanotti & Frederic Chaume (eds), Textus 1/
2021 English in Audiovisual Translation Research: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. 2019 Audiovisual Translation: Intersections, thematic Issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice (co-editor Serenella Zanotti).
2020 "The problem with culture", in Lukasz Bogucki & Mikolaj Deckert (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 647-666.
2020 "The sexist translator and the feminist heroine: politically incorrect language in films and TV", in Luise von Flotow & Hala Kamal (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 413-428.
2019 Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends, Benjamins, Amsterdam (co-editor con Serenella Zanotti).
2019 "Talking proper vs. talking with an accent: the socioliguistic divide in original and translated audiovisual dialogue", in Audiovisual Translation as Cross-Cultural Mediation-What is the Story?, special issue of Multilingua 39 (2), edited by Marie-Noëlle Guillot, Maria Pavesi & Louisa Desilla.
2019 "Gayspeak in the translation classroom", in Marcella de Marco and Piero Toto (eds), Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers, Palgrave Macmillan.
2019 "The Cockney Persona: The London Accent in Characterisation and Translation", in Audiovisual Translation: Intersections, thematic Issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, a cura di Irene Ranzato & Serenella Zanotti. link to the complete list of activities: https://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/users/irene-ranzato