Dr Katharina WALTER, MA

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• Position
  Senior Lecturer
• At the department since
  17.09.2012
• Mother tongue
  German
• Language of instruction
  English
• Main focus of teaching
  English language proficiency
  Cultural Studies
  Literary and common language translation and
  Specialised translation German-English/English-German

• Research interests and research specialisations
  Literary translation, translation in the age of AI, creativity and translation, identity and translation, Irish literature (in original language and translation),
• Administrative duties
  Coordination of the English department
  Supervision of Bachelor's and Master's theses
  Second examiner and chair of oral examinations in the Master's and Diploma programmes
  (Co-)organisation of conferences
• Current projects
  Project on creativity and translation in the age of AI (specialising in literary translation)
• Awards
  2015: Participation in the IWL Summer School (Harvard University, USA) in Lisbon, Portugal, funded by the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies and the International Relations Office of the University of Innsbruck.
  2008-2010: Faculty of Arts and Celtic Studies Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
  2009: Emory Short-Term Visiting Fellowship to visit the Manuscript, Special Collections and Archives Library at Emory University, USA.
  
  Research performance