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Dr Magdalena Kampert

 

Principal Investigator (magdalenakampert@usal.es)

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About

Magdalena Kampert is a HORIZON MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow and researcher with a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Glasgow. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna and a BA in Italian Studies from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her research spans Translation Studies, Italian Studies, Comparative Literature and Polish Studies, focusing on 20th- and 21st-century contexts and exploring power relations between languages and cultures, linguistic sustainability and the sociocultural dynamics of (self-)translation.

She has extensive teaching, assessment and leadership experience across disciplines and institutions (Universities of Glasgow, Birmingham, and Stirling) at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including convening, course development and supervision.

Magdalena has written on self-translation in the Italian and Polish contexts and on the Sicilian translation of “Le Petit Prince”. She served as guest editor for the special issue “Rethinking (Self-)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts” of New Voices in Translation Studies (2020) and has worked as a professional translator.

Her current research examines the activist potential of self-translation for promoting multilingualism and supporting minorised languages, with a focus on Sicilian self-translation. The project integrates public engagement and online contexts, connecting research with communities and policymakers.

Selected publications

  • Kampert, Magdalena (2025) The invisibility of the self-translator and its implications: between the nationalist paradigm of monolingualism and neoliberal language ideologies. Perspectives, (doi: 10.1080/0907676X.2025.2573934)
  • Kampert, Magdalena (2024) Saving the unsavable or self-translating to exist? An investigation into self-translation in Sicilian context. Journal of Literary Multilingualism, 2(1), pp. 61-79. (doi: 10.1163/2667324x-20240104)
  • Kampert, Magdalena (2024) Theatre self-translation as cultural renegotiation and a tool of empowerment: the case of Luigi Pirandello. Translation Studies, 17(1), pp. 120-134. (doi: 10.1080/14781700.2023.2193192)
  • Kampert, Magdalena (2019) Self-translation: between national literature and “world citizenship” (the case of Maria Kuncewiczowa and Janusz Głowacki). Przekładaniec, pp. 120-135. (doi: 10.4467/16891864ePC.19.008.11266)

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Professor África Vidal Claramonte

 

Main Supervisor (africa@usal.es)

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África Vidal is Professor of Translation at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her research interests include translation theory, migrant studies, contemporary art, and gender studies. She has participated in international conferences and has been invited guest-lecturer at many universities in Spain and universities in England, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Venezuela, Iran, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile and Argentina. She has 12 edited volumes (among them Routledge Handbook of Spanish Translation Studies, 2019, co-edited with Roberto Valdeón, and Translation/Power/Subversion, coedited with Román Álvarez, Multilingual Matters, 1996), and more than a hundred chapters and articles in leading journals (Meta, Perspectives, TTR, Linguistica Antwerpiensia, The Translator, Translation Studies, Translating and Interpreting Studies, Translation, Translation and Interpreting, European Journal of English Studies, Forum, Journal of Multicultural Studies, Terminology, etc.).

She has published 24 books, including Textile Translations (Routledge 2026), Translating His-stories (CUP 2025), Translating Indigenous Knowledges (Routledge 2025), Translation and Objects (Routledge 2024), Translation and Repetition (Routledge 2023), Translating Borrowed Tongues (Routledge 2023) and Translation and Contemporary Art (Routledge 2022). She has supervised to completion 26 PhD theses. She is member of the International Advisory Board of several international journals and a practising translator specialized in the fields of philosophy, literature and contemporary art.

Selected publications
Articles:

 

  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2022) La auto-traducción y el original secundario en Ilan Stavans: ser traduciendo, traducirse para ser. Mutatis Mutandis, 15(1), pp. 509-523 (doi: 10.17533/udea.mut.v15n1a09)
  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2022) Who’s Afraid of Difference? Post-Monolingualism against Power. The Translator, 28(4), pp. 399-414 (https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2022.2161125)

Book Chapters:

 

  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2022) Self-Translation as a Space for Political and Ideological Conflict: The Case of Rosario Ferré. In: Translation Politicised & Politics Translated, ed. by Ali Almanna and Juliane House. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 71-88.
  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2021) Rewriting Walls in the Country You Call Home: Space as a Site for Asymmetries. In: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City, ed. by Tong King Lee. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 26-44.
  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2018) Power. In: Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture, ed. by Sue-Ann Harding and Ovidi Carbonell-Cortés. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 79-96.

Books:

 

  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2024). Translation and objects: Rewriting migrancy and displacement through the materiality of art. London and New York: Routledge. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003488170)
  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2023) Translating borrowed tongues: The verbal quest of Ilan Stavans. London and New York: Routledge. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003323730)
  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África (2021) Traducción y literatura translingüe. Voces latinas en Estados Unidos. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
  • Vidal Claramonte, M. Carmen África & Román Álvarez (eds., 1996) Translation, Power, Subversion. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.

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Dr Josep Miquel Ramis Llaneras

 

Co-Supervisor (josep.ramis@ub.edu)

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Josep Miquel Ramis holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting (2004) and a PhD in Multilingual Communication (2011) from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He has undertaken research stays at the Complutense University of Madrid, Paris IV – Sorbonne University, and ENST Bretagne, and has taught at Pompeu Fabra University, the Open University of Catalonia, and the University of Barcelona. His research interests include literary translation and reception, Catalan literature, and particularly self-translation. He is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Barcelona.

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Book Chapters:

 

  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2019) La direccionalidad de las autotraducciones en la literatura catalana: ejemplos y repercusiones. In: Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts, ed. by Lila Bujaldón, Belén Bistué and Melisa Stocco. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 325-369 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23625-0_10)
  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2018) Tipologia d’autotraductors i autotraduccions a la literatura catalana. In: Bilingüisme, traducció i literatura catalana, ed. by Enric Gallén and José Francisco Ruiz Casanova. Lleida: Punctum, pp. 71-101.
  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2017) The failure of self-translation in Catalan literature. In: Self-translation and Power. Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts, ed. by Olga Castro, Sergi Mainer and Svetlana Skomorokhova. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 95-117 (https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50781-5_5)
  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2014) Els primers manuscrits de Terres de l’Ebre, de Sebastià Juan Arbó. In: La filologia d’autor en els estudis literaris. Textos catalans dels segles XIX i XX, ed. by Joan-Ramon Veny-Mesquida and Jordi Malé. Lleida: Pagès, pp. 183-196.
  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2013) Autotraducció: ratificació i rectificació. El cas de Sebastià Juan Arbó. In: L’Autotraduction, aux frontières de la langue et de la culture, ed. by Christian Lagarde and Helena Tanqueiro. Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, pp. 169-184.
  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2011) Traducir bajo control: la versión francesa de Tino Costa, de Sebastià Juan Arbó. In: Aproximaciones a la autotraducción, ed. by Xosé Manuel Dasilva and Helena Tanqueiro. Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, pp. 197-215.
  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2011) Josep Palau i Fabre, autotraductor. In: Actes del Quinzè Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes. Volum III: La llengua dels escriptors, ed. by Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, pp. 141-152.

Books:

 

  • Ramis, Josep Miquel (2014). Autotraducció. De la teoria a la pràctica. Vic: Eumo. Biblioteca de Traducció i Interpretació, 20.

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Professor Izaskun Elorza Amorós

 

Ethics Mentor (iea@usal.es)

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Dr. Izaskun Elorza holds a PhD in English Linguistics (2005) from the University of Salamanca, where she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies since 1990. Her research combines discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics, with applications to translation, intercultural communication and multilingual contexts. She leads the LINDES research group and coordinates the Knowledge Transfer Group LINDIMUL, fostering the social impact of research on linguistic description, discourse and multimodality. Her work on translation in language education, intercultural competence, and the multimodal representation of migration narratives, particularly in multilingual environments, aligns closely with the aims of the Atlas project. She is also an active member of the international Cultural Literacy Research Network through its Special Interest Group on Migration, which brings together international scholars and cultural practitioners to examine how contemporary artistic representations of migration, across literature, theatre, film and the visual arts, reshape understandings of mobility, multilingualism, multiculturalism and transnationalism through creative practice. At present, together with her team she is implementing the NarrAccion.es programme of workshops on sustainable personal narratives, which harnesses the affordances of multimodal storytelling, sustainable material culture and personal self-narratives for helping people in socially vulnerable groups develop a personal voice.

Selected publications
Articles:

 

  • Mocanu, Vasilica; Valeria, González & Izaskun Elorza (2023) The Construction of Mono- and Multilingual Identity Portrayals on Social Media: The Case of Instagram. ILCEA: revue de l’Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie. (https://doi.org/10.4000/ILCEA.17254)
  • Elorza, Izaskun; Ovidi Carbonell Cortés (2015) Expressions of Translation in an Interculturally Globalised World: Language, Culture and Interculture in the Spanish context. CLINA: an interdisciplinary journal of translation, interpreting and intercultural communication 1, n.º 2, pp. 7-10.

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