School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Profile

I have a BA in English and Comparative Literature and an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Portsmouth. After completing my PhD, I taught Translation Studies at the University of Exeter and the University of Hull before joining Portsmouth as a lecturer in 2012.

The focus of my teaching is the theory and practice of translation. I contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in this area. I also contribute to study skills teaching.

My research is concerned with translation and adaptation in contemporary literature, film and graphic narratives. I am currently working on studies of translation as a form of appropriation in literature and film. My research interests also include adaptation in comics and the translation of detective fiction, as well as world literature, theories of translation and cultural theory. I am a member of the editorial board for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Full research profile: Jonathan Evans
see also: http://port.academia.edu/JonathanEvans