Dr Carol O'Sullivan

Summary

Translation Studies, audiovisual translation, film history, film translation history, translation history, literary translation.

Biography

Carol O'Sullivan studied Italian and French language and literature at Trinity College, Dublin and subsequently at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained a PhD on translations of and by Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett and James Joyce. She taught at the University of East Anglia and the University of Portsmouth before taking her current position at the University of Bristol in summer 2013. 

Carol is an Associate Editor of the journal Translation Studies and a Board member of the European Society for Translation Studies. She is a member of the Training Committee of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies.

Teaching

Carol O'Sullivan teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units in the theory and practice of translation, and supervises MA and PhD research in translation-related topics. Since August 2013 she has been programme director for the MA in Translation. 

Keywords

• Translation Studies
• translation
• Film
• Film History
• censorship
• literary translation
• subtitling

Memberships

Organisations

Department of French

Department of German

Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Department of Italian

Department of Russian

School of Modern Languages

Research clusters

• Screen Studies

Links

•   My blog

Recent publications

• O'Sullivan, C, 2016, ‘“A splendid innovation, these English titles!”: Sources of evidence for early subtitling practice ’. in: Carol O'Sullivan, Jean-François Cornu (eds) Translation of films, 1900-1944 (provisional title). British Academy/OUP
• O'Sullivan, C, 2016, ‘Imagined spectators: The importance of policy for audiovisual translation research’. Target. International Journal for Translation Studies, vol 28., pp. 261-275
• Cornu, J-F & O'Sullivan, C, 2016, ‘The Translation of Films: History, Preservation, Research, and Exhibition’. Journal of Film Preservation., pp. 25-31
• Henitiuk, V & O'Sullivan, C, 2015, ‘Aims and Scope: Journal Identity and Twenty-First-Century Scholarly Publishing’. in: Yifeng Sun (eds) Translation and Academic Journals: The Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Publishing. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., New York, pp. 15-35
• O'Sullivan, C & Cornu, J-F, 2015, ‘History of Audiovisual Translation’. in: Luis Pérez González (eds) Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation. Routledge
• O'Sullivan, CM, 2013, ‘Multimodality as challenge and resource for translation’. JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, vol 20., pp. 2-14
• O'Sullivan, CM, Causse, M & Serandour, B, 2013, ‘Quand l’image traduit l’image: «doubler» le texte à écran’. L'Écran Traduit, vol 2., pp. 42-61
• O'Sullivan, CM, 2013, ‘Quand l’image traduit l’image: «doubler» le texte à l’écran’. L'Écran Traduit, vol 2., pp. 123-142
• O'Sullivan, CM, 2012, ‘Introduction: Rethinking methods in translation history’. Translation Studies , vol 5., pp. 131-138
• O'Sullivan, CM, 2012, ‘‘Playing with(out) the dictionary: Using constrained literature in the development of transferable skills for translators. ’. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, vol 6., pp. 237-65

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