Docents teaching at other universities and recent Ph.D.s
Other Members
Igor Kudashev is Docent in Russian Translation at the University of Helsinki and Senior Lecturer of Russian Language and Translation Studies at the University of Tampere.
Leena Salmi is Docent in Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki and Senior Lecturer of French Studies at the University of Turku.
Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov is Professor of Multilingual Translation Studies at the University of Turku and Docent in Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in 18th-century translation studies.
Laura Leden defended her dissertation on norm-confirming and norm-breaking in girls’ books translated from English to Swedish and Finnish from 1945 to 1965. The text is available here.
Léa Huotari defended her dissertation on translation shifts affecting the grammatical subject in a corpus of literary translations between Finnish and French in February 2021. The text is avalable here. She teaches at the University of Turku.
Hanna Westerlund, Ph.D.
Hanna Westerlund defended her dissertation on collocations in translated European Union regulations in 2020. The text is avalable here. Her research interests include terminology, translation theory, lexical semantics, languages for specific purposes, and language learning and teaching.
Taru Virtanen defended her dissertation on Government translators’ perceptions of translator status and its underlying determinants in 2019. The text is available here.
Meri Päivärinne received her Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2018. In her doctoral dissertation, she analysed the life of the influential 18th-century French translator Jean Barbeyrac. The text is available here.