Translation Studies

The Translation Studies program of the University of Glasgow hosts a strong postgraduate community and discipline-specific networks and offer a stimulating research seminar program, extensive library resources, wide-ranging expertise in the field and the opportunity for interdisciplinary supervision.

Key facts

• The research in the Translation Studies program of the University of Glasgow is wide-ranging with students and staff working in fields from literary through to audiovisual translation across a broad range of languages. These include:
• Catalan

• Czech

• Finnish

• French

• German

• Italian

• Mandarin

• Polish

• Portuguese

• Russian

• Spanish
• Further languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Gaelic, Early Gaelic, Medieval Welsh, and Irish are also offered in other Schools.
• As Translation Studies is necessarily interdisciplinary, the program at Glasgow draws in a range of expertise across different fields of study. Applicants are encouraged to look at the research profiles of colleagues in all areas of the School and if appropriate, the University. Joint supervision allows students to be advised in Translation Studies but also in a complementary subject area, examples being creative writing, the graphic novel, medieval and renaissance studies, music, law or medicine. Our staff produce world-leading research in the field and engage in wide-ranging collaborations across the College of Arts (English Literature, History, Philosophy, Theology).

Courses include

• audiovisual translation

• multimodality and translation

• reception research and user-centred translation

• theatre translation from the early modern period to the present

• Translation Studies theory and history

• methodologies for translation

• bridging the gap between translation theory and practice

• literary translation, including poetry

• translation as adaptation

• translating non-standard language

• translating gendered language

• postcolonial translation

• Translation and censorship