Zoë Pettit

Zoë Pettit is Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Learning & Quality for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich, London. She holds a PhD in audiovisual translation (2000) from Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, France. Her research interests include interlingual subtitling and dubbing, multimodality, verbal and non-verbal communication. Her current focus is on subtitling and dubbing South African film. She has published various articles on audiovisual translation in: Y. Gambier (ed.) Special Issue of Meta; JosTrans; Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. Other recent publications include chapters in: A. Serban, J-M. Lavaur (eds.) Le sous-titrage des films: approches pluridisciplinaires and in : J. Diaz-Cintas (ed.) New Trends in Audiovisual Translation (Topics in Translation). She has participated in international conferences on audiovisual translation and is a member of the European Society for Translation Studies, the Chartered Institute of Linguists and the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies.