Ass.-Prof. Dr. Marco AGNETTA

• Position
  Career position (postdoc, assistant professor)
• Mother tongue
  German, Italian
• Languages / Teaching languages
  German, Italian, Spanish, French
• Main areas of research / research interests

- Semiotics of translation I: Polysemioticity/multimodality and translation (especially operas, TV series)
- Semiotics of translation II: Intersemiotic translation
- Morphology: Modification suffixes (diminutives, augmentatives and apreciatives) in linguistics and translatology
- Metaphors in linguistics and translation
- Translation hermeneutics and translational creativity
- Rhythm concepts in language, translation and translation studies
- Open access in the humanities
- Working in linguistics and translation studies

• Focus areas in teaching
  Audiovisual translation, serial formats in intercultural transfer
• Administrative duties
  Coordination ERASMUS+ Italy; outgoings & lecturers: Cagliari, Forlì (Bologna), Milan, Perugia, Rome, Trieste
• Current projects
  Audiovisual translation and television seriality
• Memberships
  Romance Studies Association
  French Romance Studies Association
  International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA)
  EST: European Society for Translation Studies
• Awards
  Award of the Saarland University Society for the best doctoral thesis 2019