Gert Vercauteren

Gert Vercauteren is junior lecturer at the Department of Translators and Interpreters of Artesis University College, Antwerp, where he teaches computer-assisted translation as well as literary and audiovisual translation in the Portuguese department. His field of research is AVT in general and audio description in particular. He is currently preparing a PhD on narratology and content selection in AD and was involved in the European Digital Television for All-project co-ordinated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2009 he gave workshops in AD in the Summer School in Screen Translation in Forli and at the 3rd Media for All Conference in Antwerp. He also works as a freelance translator and reviser of AVT-translations and audio descriptions.