Nemesis Maximo wrote:Va'al wrote:Update on Va'al's life, for all the fans out there:
- PhD thesis handed in.
- Working as Associate Tutor at university for the semester.
- Working again as scare actor for the next month.
- Social media manager for the scare park.
- Editor for online publication.
- Freelance translations.
Remind us Va'al, what is your PhD for again?
Translation studies, specifically Literary Translation.
My thesis in particular was a critical manual on comics translation from Italian to English, focusing on the difficulties of multicultural/lingual references, sociolinguistic perceptions of language varieties, interaction between text and image (considered as both parts of a 'language') and humour in two different cultures/settings.
And it allowed me to teach English Literature and Translation to first years at university, plus attend conferences as a speaker, and publish articles and stuff. I got funding, too!