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Senior Lecturer (Greek Translation) 0.8fte

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3492
Email : D.Kapsaskis@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Queen's Building 111

Qualifications

PhD

About

I studied Translation in Corfu, Greece, and Warwick, UK, before completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at UCL. My main areas of research interest include:

- theories of representation (poststructuralist and beyond);

- translation theories;

- audiovisual translation;

- 20th-Century French literature;

I continue to work as sub-editor, subtitler and specialised translator.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Centre International de documentation Marguerite Yourcenar

International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies

The Higher Education Academy

Publications

(2011) Professional Identity and Training of Translators in the Context of Globalisation: The Example of Subtitling , The Journal of Specialised Translation, Issue 16, 162-184.
(2009) Book review: • Jorge Díaz-Cintas (ed.) New Trends in Audiovisual Translation Studies (Multilingual Matters, 2009). , The Journal of Specialized Translation, Issue 13, 2009. http://www.jostrans.org/issue13/rev_diaz_cintas.pdf.
(2008) Book review: Marcel Thelen and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds). 2007. Translation and Meaning, Part 7. Zuyd University: Maastricht, The Journal of Specialized Translation, Issue 10.
(2008) Translation and Film: On the Defamiliarizing Effect of Subtitles, New Voices in Translation Studies, Issue 4, 2008, http://www.iatis.org/newvoices/issues/2008/kapsaskis_paper_2008.pdf.
(2006) Remarques préliminaires au sujet du cosmopolitisme dans l’œuvre “anti-moderniste” de Marguerite Yourcenar, Voda Capusan et al. (eds) Marguerite Yourcenar, citoyenne du monde (Clermont Ferrand: SIEY), pp. 183-190.
(2006) Translation into Greek of Eastlake, Keith et al. 2001. World Disasters: Tragedies in the Modern Age. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Καταστροφές και Τραγωδίες. With Vera Lambrou, Athens, Greece: Atlantis
(2004) Réalisme et limites de la représentation dans la pensée critique de Marguerite Yourcenar, Fréris and Poignault (eds) Marguerite Yourcenar: écrivain du XIXe siècle? (Clermont-Ferrand: SIEY), pp. 251-258.