Arts and Humanities Department of Modern Languages, Translation and Communication Postgraduate Research Students
Modern Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation Modern Foreign Languages Katie Jones PhD in German Title: Queering Confession: Shame, Truth, and Fictions in 20th Century Life Writings Supervisors: Prof Julian Preece, Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke Funding: Fee scholarship from the Pentyfedweyn Trust (2015); Research bursary from the Anglo- Austrian Society (2016) Publications: Blueabeardean Features in Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Gender Forum, 58 (2016) Jennifer Watson PhD in German Title: Elective Affinities: Memory, Empathy, and the Weight of History in the Work of Herta Müller Supervisors: Dr Brigid Haines, Dr Katharina Hall Katie McErlain Title: A Study of Role-Play in the Comic Drama of Calderan Supervisors: Dr Lloyd Davies, Prof Derek Connon Aled Rees Title: Literal and Metaphorical Spaces at the Margins: Marginalisation in Contemporary Colombian Literature Supervisors: Dr Lloyd Davies, Dr Geraldine Lublin Laura Webb Title: Witness, Resistance and Memory: The Literary Legacy of Argentina's Dirty War Supervisors: Dr Lloyd Davies, Dr Alison Williams Translation Maha M.D. Aldahi Title: Formulaic Expressions between English and Arabic: a Comparative and Contrastive Study for Equivalence Supervisors: Dr Lloyd Davies, Dr Maria Fernandez-Parra Funding: Sponsored by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Turky Alshaikhi Title: An Evaluation of Translation Programmes in Saudi Arabian Universities Supervisors: Dr María Fernández Parra, Prof Andy Rothwell 2
Atheer Ahmed Alsuwayl Title: Saudi EFL Learners' Attitudes Towards Using Machine Translation in their EFL Study Programme: A Case Study of Qassim University Supervisors: Prof Andrew Rothwell, Dr Rocío Perez-Tattam, Dr Salwa El-Awa Rachel Bryan Title: In What Ways, and to What Extent, is Linguistic Semantic Transparency in Current Systems of Pharmaceutical Nomenclature - in the UK, Italy, Russia, and Internationally Implicated in Risks to Patient Safety in the Form of Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Medication Name Confusion Errors? Supervisors: Dr Alison Williams, Prof Sue Jordan (College of Human & Health Science) Funding: Full AHRC Master's studentship (2009-2012); Full PhD studentship bursary (2015-2019) Publications: Bryan, R (2015), Taxonomy and Transparency in International Pharmaceutical Nomenclature, in: P. ten-hacken & R. Panacova (eds.), Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English. Cambridge Scholars Press; Bryan, R., Aronson, J.K., ten-hacken, P., Williams, A.J. & Jordan, S. (2015), Patient Safety in Medication Nomenclature: Orthographic and Semantic Properties of International Nonproprietary Names. PLoS ONE, 10(12) Anna-Lou Dijkstra Title: Wales Through European Eyes: Representations of Wales in Continental Guidebooks 1850-2010 Supervisors: Dr Kathryn Jones, Prof Daniel Williams Funding: AHRC-funded studentship; Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (2014-15) Publication: Dijkstra, Anna-Lou, Marginalizing and Exoticizing Wales: Shifting Representations in Translated Guidebooks, Translation Studies, 9 (2016), 198-211 Alaa Ibrahim Olwi Title: Subtitling the Taboo: Is It a Taboo? Supervisors: Dr Katharina Hall, Dr Patricia Rodríguez-Martínez Nina Patton Title: Nominal Compounds in English and their Translations Supervisors: Dr María Fernández Parra, Dr Rocío Perez-Tattam Publication: Patton, N., Fernandez Parra, M. & Pérez-Tattam, R., Transparency of Nominal Compounds in Medical English: Problems in their Translation into Spanish and Slovak, in Pius ten-hacken, Renata Panacova (eds.), Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 97-132. Dr Gabriella Valentino Title: Italian Translations of the Works of P.G. Wodehouse - Humour, Epistemics, and History 3
Undergraduate modules available to Visiting Students Supervisors: Dr Tom Cheeseman, Dr Robert Magnani Zihui Wang Title: The Significance of Note-taking in Chinese-English Consecutive Interpreting in a Business Context Supervisors: Dr Patricia Rodríguez-Martínez, Dr Sabrina Wang Xiangyu Yang Title: To Analyse and Evaluate the English Translations of Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature from a Cognitive Stylistic View Supervisors: Dr Sabrina Wang, Dr Tom Cheesman 4