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

  • UMO-2022/47/B/HS2/02252 (Opus-24) research grant funded by the National Science Centre (2023-2026) - Persons with visual impairment and functions of multimodal texts: Development of a functional model of audio description. Principal Investigator: Dr. Iwona Mazur
  • 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
  • Media accessibility (audio description, respeaking)

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).
  • Kulnaree Sueroj. 2023. “Strategies for audio describing gestures and facial expressions for visually impaired Thai audiences. Doctoral thesis supervised by prof. Mariana López, submitted and defended at University of York, UK, September 2023

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
  • Beijing Normal University, Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong, 2023 (online)

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
  • „Audiodeskrypcja w materiałach uczelni”; VII Forum Pełnomocników ds. Osób z Niepełnosprawnościami organizowane w ramach projektu POWER „Uczelnia otwarta dla wszystkich uczelnią na miarę XXI wieku”; 2022, Poznań, Poland (invited speaker)
  • Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description ARSAD, 2023, Barcelona, Spain
  • Media for All 10: Human Agency in the Age of Technology, 2023, Antwerp, Belgium

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
  • Conference ‘Forum bez barier: O kinie dostępnym’, CK Zamek, Poznań (invited guest), 2024

Outreach activities

  • WA Friday Lunch Talk, 2019
  • 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)
  • Noc Anglistów (Anglicists’ Night), 2022, Faculty of English, Poznań, Poland (a workshop organized with dr. Olga Witczak)
  • XXVI Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki (26th Poznan Science and Art Festival), 2023, Faculty of English, Poznań, Poland (a workshop organized with dr. Olga Witczak)

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
  • 9th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description ARSAD, Barcelona, Spain, 2024

Honours

  • Adam Mickiewicz University Rector's Award for Academic Achievements (2016)
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Rector's Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievements in 2022 (2023)
  • Nomination for the 2024 Scientist of the Future (‘Naukowiec Przyszłości’) Award (2024)

Publications