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. From 2019 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project “The Normalization of Natural Philosophy” at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), where she worked on corpus acquisition and expansion methods and on the social and semantic network analysis of several multilingual early modern natural philosophy data sets.
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.
She currently serves as the Chair of the Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
Latest publications: Literary translation on digital platforms. Intermedial and sonic perspectives (in The Translator); Reassembling Translation Anthologies (OA, Routledge).
E-mail: raluca.tanasescu@universityofgalway.ie
Office: Hardiman Research Building, room THB-1013
