Katiliina Gielen

Katiliina Gielen is a lecturer of British literature and translation-related subjects such as practical translation, history of translation and translation theory. Her main research interests lay in Translation Studies, including transmedial translation, translation and theatrical texts, gender and translation as well as Comparative Literary Studies. She has published in the field of Estonian translation history, and comparative literary history, and has been one of the organisers of a series of international conferences on the history of translation titled Itineraries in Translation History. Katiliina Gielen has supervised numerous BA and MA papers in the fields of Translation Studies, Comparative Literary Studies and Teacher Training. She also supervises teacher training practices. Katiliina Gielen is the Erasmus+ coordinator for the Department of English Studies. 

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Selected publications:

• Gielen, Katiliina; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina (2021). On Performativity and Perception in Early Estonian-Language Theatre Translation. Methis Studia humaniora Estonica, 22 (27/28), 198−222.
• Gielen, Katiliina; Kaldjärv, Klaarika (2019). Mission and Sacrifice: Myths of Estonian Translation History. Acta Slavica Estonica, X, 310−327.
• Gielen, Katiliina; Kaldjärv Klaarika (2018). World Literature in Estonia: the construction of national translation ethics. Interlitteraria, Vol 23 ( No 1), 19−32.
• Gielen, Katiliina (2017). Ethical Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and World Literature. Literary Research, 33, 263.

Projects and workgroups:

• PHVLC18912 Theatre translation as a polycoded text (on the example of Estonian theatrical culture) (1.02.2018−31.01.2020)
• PHVFI17926 Transmedial translation history: principles of transmedial text analysis (1.02.2018−31.12.2019)
• IUT34-30 Ideology of Translation and Translation of Ideology: Mechanisms of Cultural Dynamics under the Russian Empire and Soviet Power in Estonia in the 19th – 20th Centuries (1.01.2015−31.12.2020)

More publications and information in the Estonian Research Information System.

Research clusters:

• Translation History in Translation Studies

Contact: katiliina.gielen@ut.ee
 

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