MARY LOUISE WARDLE

Associate professor


email: mary.wardle@uniroma1.it
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Mary Wardle is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation Studies at Sapienza University of Rome where she is also course leader for the Teacher Training courses in English, French and Spanish. 

Recent and forthcoming publications include book chapters and articles on the English translations of the works of Primo Levi in a volume on Translation Studies and Memory Studies (Routledge); Primo Levi retranslated (Peter Lang); Dance Notation and Translation (Bloomsbury); Embodied Translation (World Literature Studies); Beryl de Zoete, dance ethnography and embodied practice (Palimpsestes); The National Covid Memorial Wall as a Translation Site in a volume on Experiential Translation (Routledge); Intralingual translation between varieties of English (Benjamins); translingual identity in Jhumpa Lahiri (Springer) (Peter Lang); Translation and Accessibility with specific reference to modernised versions of Shakespeare (European Journal of English Studies).
She is currently working on a monograph on translations published in bi- and multi-lingual editions (Routledge).


Research products

11573/151061 - in press - Literary (Re)translation. Why are texts translated more than once?
Wardle, Mary Louise - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Selected Papers of the CETRA research seminars in Translation Studies - ()

11573/1766784 - 2026 - Holding as ‘twere the mirror up to the text: modern English translations for accessible Shakespeare
Wardle, Mary - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES (attuale: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON, ENGLAND, OXON, OX14 4RN Precedente: Swets & Zeitlinger BV:Heereweg 347B, PO Box 825, 2160 SL Lisse Netherlands:011 31 252 435111, 011 31 252 435106, EMAIL: orders@swets.nl, INTERNET: http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html, Fax: 011 31 252 415888) pp. 1-19 - issn: 1382-5577 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1761785 - 2026 - Intralingual variation in translation into “English”: Rewriting the (para)text for local audiences
Wardle, Mary - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text - (9789027244208)

11573/1745246 - 2025 - Framing the writer: Paratextual elements in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri
Wardle, Mary - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Traduction et paratexte / Translation and Paratext / Traduzione e paratesto Cartographie d’une voix / Cartography of a Voice / Cartografia di una voce - (978-3-0343-5615-2)

11573/1734230 - 2025 - Writing, Rewriting, Translating, Retranslating: The Evolution of Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo
Wardle, Mary - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Retranslation and Socio-Cultural Changes - (9781803743066)

11573/1734430 - 2025 - The National Covid Memorial Wall as a Translation Site
Wardle, Mary - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: The Translation of Experience: Cultural Artefacts in Experiential Translation - (978-1-032-61208-9)

11573/1734954 - 2025 - Ablehnung der (Stief-)Muttersprache: Jhumpa Lahiris translinguale Identität
Wardle, Mary - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Weltenglisch, Globale Klassenzimmer - (978-981-97-8182-9)

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