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Paola Ruffo

Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Humanities
    • Literary translation
    • Translation and interpretation sciences
  • Natural sciences
    • Human-computer interaction
Expertise
Human-Computer Interaction Social Construction of Technology Translation Technology Computer-Assisted Literary Translation Computer-Aided Translation Literary Translation
Bio
Paola Ruffo is a researcher in the field of Computer-Aided Literary Translation (CALT). She has joined Ghent University as a Marie Skłodowska–Curie Postdoctoral Fellow to work on 'Developing User-centred Approaches to Technological Innovation in Literary Translation (DUAL-T)'. She has previously worked as an English>Italian freelance translator and a Lecturer in Translation Technology at the University of Bristol. She has obtained her PhD at Heriot-Watt University with a thesis titled: 'In-between role and technology: literary translators on navigative the new socio-technological paradigm'. Latest publication: Ruffo, P. (2022) Collecting literary translators' narratives: towards a new paradigm for technological innovation in literary translation. In James Hadley, Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov, Carlos Teixeira and Antonio Toral (eds.) Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation. London: Routledge, pp. 18-39. doi: 10.4324/9781003094159-2