Dr Dionysios Kapsaskis

 

Dionysios studied Translation in Corfu, Greece, and Warwick, UK, before completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at UCL. His main areas of research interest include
- theories of representation (poststructuralist and beyond);
- translation theories;
- audiovisual translation;
- 20th-Century French literature;
Dionysios continues to work as sub-editor, subtitler and specialised translator.

Publications

(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) Conference paper: Integration versus Specialization: Subtitler Training and the Contemporary Audiovisual Industry, Conference: Teaching Translation and Interpreting (University of Łodz, Poland).

(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.

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

French
Translation

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Audiovisual Translation

Other courses taught at Roehampton: