METM25 podcast series with Lisa Agostini
Clare Vassallo presented a talk at METM25 entitled Translation in a tourism and heritage landscape: a pragmatic view. This podcast contains snippets from the presentation and a short interview with Clare by Lisa Agostini. For MET members: to see the slides in Clare’s presentation, visit the METM archive.
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About the presenter:
Clare Vassallo is Professor of Translation Studies and Semiotics at the University of Malta. Her areas of interest are history and theory of translation; pragmatics and semiotics; literary translation; and adaptation studies. She has published literary translations from Maltese into English and a number of academic papers and chapters in international journals.
About the interviewer:
Lisa Agostini has been a translator and editor for over 20 years with previous career stints at MTV, BBC and in academic publishing. She works from French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian into English in the medical, pharmaceutical and humanities fields, and is the Deputy Coordinator of the ITI Spanish Network.
Credits:
Podcast recorded by Julian Mayers of Yada Yada. Photo owned by Clare Vassallo. Inset by Sarah Bawa Mason.
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