Katedra translatologie

Research interest:

• Audio description for blind and partially sighted
• Accessibility and inclusion in audiovisual translation

Courses:

• Interpreting English, Spanish

Most significant publications:

Significant projects:

• UGA III/3/2025 Tvorba a realizácia divadelného audiokomentára pre nevidiace a slabozraké publikum [UGA III/3/2025 Creation and Implementation of Theatre Audio Description for Blind and Partially Sighted Audiences]. Duration: 2025 – 2025. Lead-researcher.
• 2024-1-IT01-KA210-VET-000246598 Subtitling Sign Languages. Duration: 2025 – 2025. Co-researcher.

Profile:

Romana Chantal Čuláková graduated in 2024 with a degree in English Language and Culture and Spanish Language and Culture (Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, CPU, Nitra). She holds an international certificate titled Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal (2025) which she obtained after successfully completing an online course led by Dr. Joel Snyder. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies, and her Dissertation Thesis focuses on the creation and implementation of audio description for blind and visually impaired audiences in theatre, as well as transfer procedures and strategies for inclusive performances. In 2023 she placed third in student competition with her Master Thesis titled A Comparative Analysis of Translations of Unamuno at the Department of Romance Studies. In 2023, 2024, and 2025 she participated in the simultaneous interpretation of the “Audiovisuals Without Barriers” discussions as part of the One World Film Festival, Bratislava. As part of her student internship, she was a member of the team that interpreted the weekly program for Spanish Erasmus students at the University of the Third Age at UMB in Banská Bystrica (2023). She also participated in interpreting at the doctoral conference Tradition and Innovation in Translation Studies Research XII (2024).