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Di Giovanni ElenaRicercatore Dipartimento di Studi umanistici - lingue, mediazione, storia, lettere, filosofia (L-LIN/12) Tel. interno: 0733 258 6061 E-mail: elena.digiovanni unimc.it PresentazioneElena Di Giovanni is Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University of Macerata, where she specializes in audiovisual translation, media accessibility and also translation in postcolonial settings.She has been doing research in audiovisual translation and accessibility for over 15 years and she has published extensively on these subjects. From 2007 to 2010, she was head of the Italian research unit on audio description for the EU-funded project “DTV4ALL – Digital Television for All” (http://www.psp-dtv4all.org/). From 2010 to 2013, she was among the investigators of the Italian-funded PRIN project “ACT-Access Through Texts”. In 2012 and 2013, she has been the sole international investigator in the project “Translating Music”, funded in Great Britain by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, with a special focus on surtitling for operas and music accessibility for the sensory impaired. For 5 years she has been special projects coordinator for SubTi Ltd and SubTi Access, London, supervising the two companies’ subtitling- and accessibility-related projects throughout Europe and writing audio description and subtitling guidelines. Since 2008, she has been actively working for the provision of access to film, television, opera, theatre and cultural spaces in Italy, with over 60 events made accessible so far. Since 1999, she has been translating and proofreading for the cinema and television industry. Since 2007 she has been invited to lecture on audiovisual and postcolonial translation at a number of Italian universities: Università di Roma 3, Università la Sapienza (Rome), Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Milan), Università di Parma, Università di Trieste. She has been Visiting Lecturer in audiovisual translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Roehampton University, London, UK, for over 5 years. She is Director of the international MA in Accessibility to Media, Arts and Culture of the University of Macerata, which boosts over 30 international experts as lecturers. As for literary and postcolonial translation, her interests date back to her BA and, more significantly, her PhD days. Since 2000, she has been participating in international conferences and courses and has done extensive research in translation in postcolonial settings, translation as intercultural communication beyond the West, translation in India and, more recently, translation in Africa. Insegnamenti2013/2014
2012/2013
2011/2012
2010/2011
2009/2010
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