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Silvina Katz

Profile summary

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  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
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Professional biography

Silvina Katz is a PhD researcher in the faculty of Languages and Linguistics. Prior to commencing her PhD, Silvina obtained an MA in Translation Studies (Open), a Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Health and Social Care Management Programme), a Certificate in Adult Education Teaching (DMU), a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (Law), a BA and BSc (Hons) with the Open University majoring in Mathematics and Science. She also worked as an associate lecturer at the University of Northampton, with a focus on the Health and Law modules for the DPSI qualification in Spanish/English. She also has many years of experience as a Spanish tutor, translator, and interpreter.

 

Research interests

Her current research interests include looking at the role of the senses in the creation of atmosphere in the stories of Argentinian writer Silvina Ocampo in Spanish and in English translation.  She has co-authored with Dr. Séverine Hubscher-Davidson, a chapter on the hermeneutics of translation, discussing auditory aspects of emotion in Silvina Ocampo’s fictional worlds, published in 2022. She has presented aspects of her work at a number of academic conferences and events and was the recipient of a postgraduate bursary from The British Comparative Literature Association. 

Impact and engagement

  • 2019: Conference ALTA42: Sight and Sound November 7–10, 2019 Panel: Poetry of the Senses: Translating Perception and the Sensorial https://www.literarytranslators.org/conference/alta42
  • 2020: Conference Powerful Literary Fiction Texts - Paper: The sounds of Silvina Ocampo’s fictional worlds https://p-lit.org/report-online-conference-2020/
  • 2021: Workshop “Perspectives on Perspective” @Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz- Paper: The Secret of “those eyes”: A Leitmotif as Viewpoint, Used to Read Silvina Ocampo’s Hombres Animales Enredaderas (‘Men Animals Vines’)
  • 2022: Congress-15th World Congress of Semiotics. Paper: A sensory (and emotional) reading of Silvina Ocampo’s short story Hombres Animales Enredaderas
  • https://www.semioticsworld.com/
  • 2022: CIOL 2/12/2022 webinar: Managing emotions – a linguist’s choice and use of words
  • https://www.ciol.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=284
  • Joint publication with Dr. Séverine Hubscher-Davidson: “Hermeneutics as a Route to Translating Auditory Aspects of Emotion in Silvina Ocampo’s Fictional Worlds: An Analysis of “Okno, el esclavo”” in Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics 2,pp.207–241.DOI:<10.52116/yth.vi2.46> https://journals.qucosa.de/yth/article/view/46/34
  • April 2024- Nottingham University- Immersion Symposium- Paper: “Immersion in translation: a sensory study of Silvina Ocampo’s short story “Hombres Animales Enredaderas”. Immersion Symposium - The University of Nottingham

Publications

Hermeneutics as a route to translating auditory aspects of emotion in Silvina Ocampo’s fictional worlds: An analysis of Okno, el esclavo (2022)
Katz, Silvina and Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine
Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics, 2 (pp. 207-241)