Katedra translatologie

Research interests:

• Inclusion in translation and communication
• Accessibility of content, information, and cultural events
• Audiovisual translation
• Translation didactics
• Professional aspects of translation

Courses:

• Professional Aspects of Translation
• Inclusion in Translation Communication
• Audiovisual Translation
• Translation and Localisation of Multimedia Texts
• Pragmatics of Translation
• Multimodal Text in Translation
• Methodology of Translation Studies Research
• History of Translational Activities
• Academic Writing and Strategies of Translation Studies Research

Most significant publications:

• Perez, Emília. A Participatory Approach in Enhancing Accessibility at a Film Festival: A Case Study. DOI 10.26379/IL2023001_005. In: Identity, Language and Diversity. Roč. 7, č. 1 (2023), s. 71-86. ISSN 2532-764X.
• Secara, Alina a Emília Perez. Addressing content, technical and collaboration concerns in providing access to the D/deaf and hard of hearing audience: Integrated theatre captioning and theatre sign language interpreting. In: inTRAlinea. Roč. 24 (2023), s. 1-14. ISSN 1827-000X.
• Perez, Emília, Alina Secară a Andrej Zahorák. Designing training for audiovisual translation – good practice and innovation in Austria and Slovakia. Nitra: UKF, 2022. 76 p. ISBN 978-80-558-1945-7.
• Perez, Emília, Miroslava Brezovská a Zuzana Jánošíková. Slovenský dabing a titulkovanie v premenách času. 1. vyd. Nitra: UKF, 2021. 123 s. ISBN 978-80-558-1700-2.
• Perez, Emília a Martin Djovčoš. Training Future Professionals in Slovakia: Contexts, Changes and Challenges in Translator Training. In: Translation, Interpreting, and Culture: Old Dogmas, New Approaches. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021, P. 221-242. ISBN 978-3-631-83881-5.
• Perez, Emília a Soňa Hodáková. Translator and interpreter training during the COVID-19 pandemic: Procedural, technical and psychosocial factors in remote training. DOI 10.51287/cttle20219 In: Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E. Helsinky: University of Helsinki, 2021, Vol. 8. -2021. P . 276-312.
• Valdez, Susana, Alina Secara, Emília Perez a Lindsay Bywood. Audiovisual translation and media accessibility training in the EMT network. DOI 0.47476/jat.v6i1.2023.238 Journal of Audiovisual Translation. Roč. 6, č. 1, s. 19-44. ISSN 2617-9148.
• Djovčoš, Martin, Ivana Hostová, Emília Perez a Pavol Šveda. The economies of interlingual intercultural transfer: Towards a complex picture of translators and interpreters in Slovakia. In: World Literature Studies. Vol. 12, no. 1 (2020), p. 45-66. ISSN 1337-9275.
• Perez, Emília. The Power of Preconceptions: Exploring the Expressive Value of Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. In: Languaging Diversity Volume 3: Language(s) and Power. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, P. 188-204 [1,23 AH]. ISBN 978-1-5275-0381-6.
• Perez, Emília, Edita Gromová, Andrej Zahorák a Soňa Hodáková. Audiovizuálny preklad a nepočujúci divák: problematika titulkovania pre nepočujúcich. 1. vyd. Nitra: UKF, 2016. 98 s. ISBN 978-80-558-1119-2.

Significant projects:

• VEGA 1/0214/24 Obraz prekladateľov a tlmočníkov v spoločnosti. Duration: 2024 – 2026, co-researcher
• VEGA 2/0092/23 Preklad a prekladanie v dejinách a súčasnosti slovenského kultúrneho priestoru. Premeny podôb, statusu a funkcií: texty, osobnosti, inštitúcie. Duration: 2023 – 2026, co-researcher (lead researcher for FA CPU)
• KEGA 010UKF-4/2022 Návrh kolaboratívneho vzdelávania v oblasti PSI na Slovensku: dizajn, implementácia a evaluácia kurzov zameraných na tréning tlmočníkov vo verejnej službe. Duration: 2022 – 2024, co-researcher
• KEGA 038UKF-4/2022 Precedentnosť ako nástroj v testovaní a zdokonaľovaní interkultúrnej kompetencie študentov prekladateľstva. Duration: 2022 – 2024, co-researcher
• SAIA AT Ö-SR 2021-05-15-002 Researching and designing training for audiovisual translation – Good practice and innovation. Duration: 2021 – 2022, lead researcher
• VEGA 2/0166/19 Preklad ako súčasť dejín kultúrneho priestoru III. Preklad a prekladanie – texty, osobnosti, inštitúcie v interdisciplinárnych a transdisciplinárnych vzťahoch. Duration: 2019 – 2022, co-researcher (lead researcher for FA CPU)
• VEGA 1/0547/14 Titulkovanie pre nepočujúcich: štandardy a odporúčania. Duration: 2014 – 2016, lead researcher
• VEGA 2/0200/15 Preklad ako súčasť dejín kultúrneho priestoru II. Fakty, javy a osobnosti prekladových aktivít v slovenskom kultúrnom priestore a podoby ich fungovania v ňom. Duration: 2015 – 2018, co-researcher
• ESG ITMS: 26110230050 Interné zabezpečenie kvality vzdelávania na UKF v Nitre implementáciou európskych noriem a štandardov. Duration: 2011 – 2013, co-researcher
• ESF ITMS 26110230022 Vzdelávanie divadlom. Duration: 2010 – 2014, co-researcher

Profile:

Emília Perez is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Master’s in Translation network (EMT). In 2020 she set up the EMT working group on audiovisual translation and media accessibility training in Europe which she leads to the present day. Since 2021 she is the member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation Executive Board. She is a co-founding member and current editor-in-chief of the journal Bridge: Trends and Traditions in Translation and Interpreting Studies and member of the scientific board of the Journal of Audiovisual Translation. As a trainer, access coordinator and invited expert she has been cooperating with several international projects, events and initiatives, e.g. with One World Film Festival 2020-2024; the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Parliament, Luxembourg (2020-2024); AMAC – MA in Accessibility to Media, Arts and Culture, Macerata (2023). As a supervisor and subtitler she cooperates with several domestic and international dubbing studios, localisation companies and cultural institutions, currently specialising mainly at accessibility of content to audiences with specific needs.