Anna Jankowska

Anna Jankowska graduated with an MA in Spanish Philology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Currently PhD student at the UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication of the Jagiellonian Univerity, where she is preparing her PhD dissertation, investigating the possibility of translating audio description scrits from English into Polish. In the academic year 2010-11 she was granted The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (SYLFF) to pursue further research on audio description at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.

She is also junior lecturer in audiovisual translation at the UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication of the Jagiellonian Univerity and teaches dubbing at the postgraduate course in Audiovisual Translation at  Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is also an active audiovisual translator.

Conference experience:
 
Subtitling for the deaf and the hard of hearing in Poland: practices, preferences, perception, I International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting & Intercultural Studies, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, June 2010.

Text-to-speech Audio description for voiced-over films. A case study of audiodescribed Volver in Polish, (with Agnieszka Szarkowska, Unversity of Warsaw), Emerging Topics in Translation and Interpreting, University of Trieste (Włochy), June 2010.

Audiovisual translator and audiovisual translation - social status, Imago Mundi, Warsaw, May 2010.

New trends in audiovisual translation – audio description, Translation and Localization Market in Poland, PROZ-Conference Krakow, April 2010.

Humor and cultural references translated: audience's attitude towards different methods of audiovisual translation and different translation strategies (with Giselinde Kuipers, University of Amsterdam), Krosno, Poland, March 2010;

Audio description – noble goal of translation, Między Oryginałem i Przekładem, Krakow, April 2008.

Translating humor in dubbing and subtitling, International Conference: Humor Tap Conference, Piotrków Trybunalski, May 2006.