Assoz. Prof. Dr. Alena PETROVA

Alena Petrova

Contact
University of Innsbruck
Department of Translation Studies
Herzog-Siegmund-Ufer 15, 3rd floor, room 301
A-6020 Innsbruck

Alena Petrova
+43 512 507-42465
Consultation hours: Wednesday , 10:15 - 11:00 a.m.
Staff meetings: Tuesdays between 11:00-18:00 and by appointment (pre-registration via https://calendly.com/alena-petrova)

  • Position
    Head of the Institute of Translation Studies since 01/03/2017
    Assoc. Prof., venia: Translation Studies
  • at the department since
    1 October 2006
  • Mother tongue
    Russian
  • Languages of instruction
    German, Russian
  • Main areas of research
    Theory of literary translation
    Russian literature, culture and regional studies
    Translation didactics
    community interpreting
    Habilitation on the subject of "Literary translation as a subject of translation studies and translation didactics"
    Affiliation to research centres: "Dimensions of literary transfer: transmission, mediation, reception"

    Research performance
  • Focal points in teaching
    Literary and audiovisual translation (general + German-Russian)
    Cultural Studies Russia
    Professional studies
  • Administrative duties

    Scientific organisation:
    Co-editor/co-publisher of the institute's own series "Forum Translationswissenschaft"; organisation of conferences (e.g. organisation and implementation of the TRANSLATA conference series); various project work

    Collaboration in the development of curricula:
    Collaboration on the curriculum revision of the BA curriculum in Translation Studies (in force from October 2016),
    Chair of the working group for the revision of the MA curriculum in Translation Studies (in force from October 2020)

    Participation in university committees/commissions:
    Member of the selection/appointment committees at INTRAWI and the institute's internal working groups (e.g. overall research strategy, working group on the use of machine translation in teaching, on the design of examination projects)

    Mobility projects:
    Organisation of student exchanges within the framework of CEEPUS (TRANS network; especially summer schools at universities in Eastern European countries)

    Memberships: IATI, UNIVERSITAS Austria

    Contacts to professional organisations: especially UNIVERSITAS
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