Postdoctoral researcher
Raluca Tanasescu received a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Ottawa’s School of Translation and Interpretation. Her doctoral work was supported by the very prestigious Ontario Trillium Award and the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship between 2013 and 2018. Until 2022, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in digital humanities at the University of Groningen, where she applied various quantitative approaches to the study of multilingual philosophy corpora.
Raluca’s research focuses on how new media facilitates and upholds interepistemic translation, the exchange and transformation of knowledge across different cultural, social, and disciplinary frameworks, as well as intersemiotic translation, the interpretation and adaptation of meaning across different sign systems. As a PIETRA researcher, she uses this interdisciplinary framework to analyse translations published on digital platforms (social media and news websites) by the Catholic Church and to examine the impact of technology on multilingual institutional communication at a global scale.
Latest publications: Literary translation on digital platforms. Intermedial and sonic perspectives (The Translator); Reassembling Translation Anthologies: A Journey into Non-Linear Computational Assemblages (OA, Routledge).
At the University of Galway, Raluca works as a researcher in translation and global media in Prof. Anne O’Connor’s PIETRA project. She currently serves as the Chair of the Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
