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Elena Maria Liverani

Full professor
Elena Maria Liverani

Direttore del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

Department of Humanities
Faculty of Interpreting and translation
Elena Maria Liverani

Contacts

Individual tutorial

Timetable

Individual tutorials will be held  through Microsoft Teams by appointment to be arranged in advance by e-mail.

CURRENT POSITION

Full professor for academic sector L-LIN 07 at the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation.

Coordinator of the master's degree programme in "Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting", where she teaches "Editorial Translation: Spanish Fiction and Non-Fiction I" and "Specialist Translation: Spanish Fiction and Non-Fiction II".

Member of the doctoral board of the Universidad de Málaga in “Lingüística, Literatura y Traducción”.

In 1996 she obtained a PhD in Iberian Studies from the University of Bologna. From 2001 to 2017 she was associate professor of Spanish language and translation at the University of Trento.

Alongside her research activity, she is also a translator. She has translated over thirty novels from Spanish into Italian. Among these, works by Enrique Vila-Matas and Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Since 1997 she has been the Italian ‘voice’ of Isabel Allende. For her translations of Allende’s works she was awarded the special prize for translation by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities in 2019.

RESEARCH LINES

Her research interests include Romantic and Baroque theatre, Baroque and 20 th-century fiction, and the language of tourism. More recently, she has focused her research on bilingual lexicography, contrastive phraseology, editorial translation, and audiovisual translation.

DISCIPLINARY GROUP

L-LIN/07.

 

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