drIwona Mazur

Iwona Mazur
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2001
  • Ph.D in English, Poznań, 2005

Research interests

  • Translation studies
  • Audiovisual translation
  • Audio description

Research projects

  • ADLAB PRO Audio Description: A Laboratory for the Development of a New Professional Profile Project 2016-1-IT02-KA203-024311 (EU Erasmus+ Programme) 2016-2019 - Lead Partner: University of Trieste, Italy, Dr. Elisa Perego. Partners: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), University of Antwerp (Belgium), Utopian Voices, Soundfocus, RTV Slovenija, Royal National Institute for the Blind
  • ADLAB – Audio Description: Lifelong Access for the Blind: Project 517992-LLP-1-2011-IT-ERASMUS-ECUE (EU Lifelong Learning Programme), 2011-2014. Lead Partner: University of Trieste, Prof. Christopher Taylor
  • IVY – Interpreting in Virtual Reality: Project 511862-2010-LLP-UK-KA-KA3MP (EU Lifelong Learning Programme), 2011-2012. Lead Partner: University of Surrey, Dr. Sabine Braun
  • N N104 054739 research grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2010-2011) - Eye-tracking in audio description - perception of sighted viewers and its reflection in film descriptions for the blind. Project Manager: Dr. Iwona Mazur
  • N N104 178236 research grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science (2009-2011) - Developing Polish Audio Description Standards, Project Manager: Prof. K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
  • Coordination of the Pear Tree Project (Towards a Common European Standard in Audio Description) in the DTV4ALL project (2009-2010) led by Pilar Orero, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Teaching experience

  • Translation of business and legal texts
  • Conference interpreting
  • TEFL at university level
  • M.A. seminars in Translation Studies
  • Community interpreting: Economy
  • Audio description
  • Audiovisual Translation
  • Cultural aspects of translation
  • PhD seminar in Translation Studies

Reviewed PhD dissertations

  • Gonzalo Iterregui-Gallardo. 2019. "Audio subtitling: Voicing strategies and their effect on emotional activation". Doctoral thesis supervised by Dr. Anna Matamala, submitted and defended at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, March 2019.
  • Anita Fidyka. 2021. "360 degrees content made accessible: A user-centered study on audio description". Doctoral thesis supervised by Dr. Anna Matamala, submitted and defended at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, September 2021 (online).

Other professional experience

  • In-house translator, Ernst and Young S.A., Poznań, 2001-2002
  • In-house translator, Law Office Domański Zakrzewki Palinka sp.k., Poznań, 2002-2003
  • Business English instructor, Poznań College of Foreign Languages, 2002-2004
  • B.A. seminar, Teacher Training College in Szczecin, 2005-2006
  • Head of the Postgraduate Programme in Community Interpreting, 2009-2010
  • Head of the Postgraduate Programme in Specialised Translation, 2010-2015

Membership in executive boards, advisory boards, etc.

Professional organizations and research networks

Editorial

  • 2011. Guest co-editor with Jan-Louis Kruger of special issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translatology: Pear Stories and Audio Description: Language, Perception and Cognition across Cultures, vol. 20(1). London: Routledge. Pp. 123.
  • 2019. Guest co-editor with Gert Vercauteren of special issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (LANS – TTS) on ‘Media accessibility training’, vol. 18 (2019).

Scholarships

  • University College Northampton, UK, 1999
  • Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 1999
  • Institut für Übersetzen and Dolmetschen der Universität Wien, Austria, 2000-2001
  • Marie Curie Conference Scholarship for Young Scholars - MuTra 2006
  • Marie Curie Conference Scholarship for Young Scholars - MuTra 2007

Guest lectures

  • University of Helsinki, 2005
  • University of Trieste (Italy), 2009
  • Wydział Studiów Edukacyjnych UAM, 2009
  • Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy, 2010
  • La Sapienza University of Rome, 2010
  • Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Rome, 2010
  • La Sapienza University of Rome, 2011
  • Liceum Akademickie Da Vinci, Poznań, Poland, 2020 (invited speaker)

Peer reviewer for

  • Routledge
  • Peter Lang
  • JAT – Journal of Audiovisual Translation
  • MonTI Monographs in Translation and Interpreting
  • Parallèles
  • Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice
  • RITT International Journal of Translation
  • Target. International Journal of Translation Studies
  • The Journal of Specialised Translation
  • The Interpreter and Translator Trainer

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • The Second Dublin City University Postgraduate Conference in Translation Studies, Dublin, 2005
  • MediaCom - A Workshop on the Media and International Communication, Łódź, 2005
  • Conference on "Cultural aspects of translating specialist texts" organized by Katedra Języków Specjalistycznych UW, Warsaw, 2005
  • 4th International Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquium on "Translation and Meaning", Łódź, 2005
  • 6th Workshop on Translation, Lublin, 2005
  • Marie Curie EU High Level Scientific Conference Series - Multidimensional Translation - Audiovisual Translation Scenarios, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
  • Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation, Kazimierz Dolny, 2006
  • 1st International Conference on Comparative Forensic Linguistics: Law, Language and Society, Poznań, 2006
  • Multidimensional Translation MUTRA Conference - LSP Translation Scenarios, Vienna, Austria, 2007
  • 5th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies "Why Translation Studies Matters", Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007
  • TTI 2008 - Teaching Translation and Interpreting, Łódź, Poland, 2008
  • Audio Description for the Arts Seminar, Roehamption University, London, UK, 2008
  • International Bilingual Conference - Audiovisual Translation: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Montpellier, France, 2008
  • 2nd Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona 2009
  • Konferencja Traduktologiczna "Przekład jako produkt i kontekst jego odbioru, Poznań, Poland, 2009
  • 3rd International Conference "Media For All" Quality Made to Measure, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009
  • 2nd Seminar on Eye-Tracking and Audiovisual Translation, UAB, Barcelona, Spain, 2010
  • 5th International Maastricht-Lodz Duo Colloquium on "Translation and Meaning", Łódź, Poland, 2010
  • 6th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies "Tracks and Treks in TS", Leuven, Belgium, 2010
  • 3rd Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2011
  • 30th Anniversary Conference of the Polish Association of Applied Linguistics, Lublin, Poland, 2011 (invited speaker)
  • 4th International Conference "Media For All" Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock, London, UK, 2011
  • The 5th International Conference “Media for All”, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2013
  • Intermedia 2013: The Łódź Conference on Audiovisual Translation and Localization, Łódź, Poland, 2013
  • InaTra Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translation, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2014
  • “Niepełnosprawni i sztuka”, Łódź, Poland, 2017
  • Translation research – translator training, Budapest, Hungary, 2018
  • 8th Media for All International Conference: Complex Understandings, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
  • 5th International Conference on Audiovisual Translation INTERMEDIA, Warsaw, Poland, 2019
  • Media Accessibility in Modern Languages and Translation (e-Expert Seminar Series: Translation and Language Teaching, 4th edition), Córdoba, Spain, 2020 (invited speaker)
  • Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description ARSAD, 2021, Barcelona, Spain

Participation in other events and conferences

  • 1st Seminar on Eye-Tracking and Audiovisual Translation, UAB, Barcelona, Spain, 2008
  • Languages and the Media: 8th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media, Berlin, Germany, 2010
  • Languages and the Media: 9th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media, Berlin, Germany, 2012
  • 4th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2013
  • 7th EST Congress “Translation Studies: Centres and Peripheries”, Germersheim, Germany, 2013
  • ADLAB Seminario Illustativo sull’Audio Descrizione, Trieste, Italy, 2014
  • ADLAB PRO Muliplier Event 1: AD Celebrating Progress and Looking Forward , London, UK, 2017
  • ADLAB PRO Muliplier Event 2: AD Teaching and Training, Poznań, Poland, 2017
  • ADLAB PRO Muliplier Event 3: AD Beyond Film, Antwerp, Belgium, 2018
  • 5th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain 2019
  • ADLAB PRO Multiplier Event 4: Recording, Mixing, Delivering AD, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
  • ADLAB PRO Multiplier Event 5: AD Training Materials in Open Access, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
  • ADLAB PRO Multiplier Event 6: Extending the Circle of AD, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019
  • WA Friday Lunch Talk, 2019

Outreach activities

  • Liceum Akademickie Da Vinci, Poznań, Poland, 2020 (a talk)
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers’ Night), 2020, online
  • Przedszkole nr 77, Poznań, Poland, 2021 (a talk on the occasion of Foreign Languages Day)
  • Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1, Poznań, Poland, 2022 (a talk)

Organiser of international conferences

  • Co-organiser of INTERMEDIA 2017 – International Conference on Audiovisual Translation, 25-26 September 2017, Poznań, Poland
  • Co-organiser of ADLAB PRO Multiplier Event 2, 27 September 2017, Poznań, Poland
  • Member of the organising committee of the 5th International Conference on Audiovisual Translation INTERMEDIA, Warsaw, Poland, 2019

Member of scientific committees at international conferences

  • 2nd Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2009
  • 3rd Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2011
  • Points of View Conference, Kraków, Poland, 2011
  • 4th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2013
  • The 5th International Conference “Media for All”, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2013
  • InaTra Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translation, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2014
  • 5th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
  • 6th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
  • 9th Media for All International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2021
  • 7th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2021
  • TRADIT23: I International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Madrid, Spain, 2023
  • 8th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
  • Media for All 10 Conference ‘Human Agency in the Age of Technology’, Antwerp, Belgium, 2023

Honours

  • Adam Mickiewicz University Rector's Award for Academic Achievements (2016)

Publications