Dr Catalina Calafat Ripoll

Curriculum
Brief CV
Dr Caterina Calafat was accredited as a senior lecturer by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (2015). She lectures in French Literature and Culture, as well as Literary Translation. She holds an MA (Hons) in Catalan (Hispanic) Philology from the University of the Balearic Islands and another in French and German Translation and Interpreting from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her PhD thesis (2001 UIB Doctoral Excellence Award) analyses the expression of time and place in German and French from a cognitive approach. She also works as a conference interpreter and translator (she was one of two convenors of the UIB's Master's programme in Literary Translation [2008-2010]), having translated George Sand's memoirs. She co-organises the First International Conference (The Politics) of Translation (of politics), UIB 2016. She collaborates with research teams on Language Acquisition and Learning, in addition to Comparative Literature, participating in several international projects. Her research sabbaticals overseas include periods at the Université de Corti (France) 2005-2006; the Université de Montréal (Canada) 2010; the Lessius Hogeschool of Antwerp (Belgium) 2010; the Graduate Center (CUNY. City University of New York) 2012, the Queen Mary University of London (England) 2012; the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland) 2016. Her research interests include the use of ITC in FLT, Literary Translation and Cultural Transfer, together with Comparative Studies, notably the contact between the Anglophone and Francophone spheres.
Teaching
Teaching, 5 previous years
Subject | Information |
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11141 - Techniques for Composition Writing and Literary Interpretation | |
20523 - French II | |
20527 - French III | |
20531 - Final Degree Project in Tourism | |
20828 - Final Degree Project | |
21803 - Second Foreign Language and Literature I: French | |
21806 - Second Language and its Literature II (French) | |
21829 - Final Degree Project |