School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Profile

Carol O'Sullivan studied modern languages and literatures (Italian and French) at Trinity College Dublin and then at the University of Cambridge. As a translator Carol has worked principally in the literary and academic fields. She was the joint winner with Martin Thom of the 2006 John Florio prize for literary translation, for their translation of Kuraj by Silvia di Natale (Bloomsbury, 2005). She is a member of the Centre for European and International Studies Research.

Member of:

Translators Association (Society of Authors); International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies; European Association for Studies in Screen Translation. I am a member of the Board of the European Society for Translation Studies.

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate: Text and Translation (Italian); Theory and Practice of Translation (Italian-English);

Postgraduate: Theory and Practice of Translation 1 and 2; Specialised Translation (Italian-English); Subtitling; Translating History; Translation Project; Research Management, dissertation supervision

Research Interests

Literary translation; screen translation; translation and censorship; history of the book; translator training; genre and narrative in film and media; elearning and translator training. Further information on Carol's research can be found here.

Administration

Course Leader for the MA Translation Studies, the MA Translation Studies (distance learning) and the MA Translation and Technical Communication

Cluster leader for the Language Across Borders research group of the Centre for European and International Studies Research

Co-organiser of the annual Portsmouth Translation Conference

Useful links

The National Network for Translation website can be found here

See here for the MA Translation Studies informal blog or follow us on Twitter at @MATSnews

Interested in translation? Try one of the fun online workshops here or maybe a translation competition such as the Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Competition or the Dryden Prize.

For more information about translation activities and programmes at Portsmouth click here.