Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature / New Frontiers in Translation Studies (PDF)

Joanna Dybiec-Gajer is a translation scholar, educator and practitioner, and an Associate Professor at the Pedagogical University of Kraków, where she is Head of the Chair for Translator Education. Her main research interests concern translation for young audiences, translator training and translation as a profession. She has recently published a monograph on the translation history of Heinrich Hoffmann's controversial children's classic Der Struwwelpeter in Poland (Zlota Rózdzka. Od ksiazki dla dzieci po dreszczowiec raczej dla doroslych, [Polish Struwwelpeter. From a Children's Book to an Adults' Thriller, 2017]). Her other book publications include Zmierzyc przeklad? Z metodologii oceniania w dydaktyce przekladu pisemnego [Measuring Translation. Assessment Methodology in Translation Education] (2013) and Guidebook Gazes. Poland in American and German Travel Guides (2004); she also co-authored, with Maria Piotrowska, Verba Volant, Scripta Manent. How to write an M.A. thesis in Translation Studies (2012). Joanna Dybiec-Gajer was Head of the Organizing Committee of the international conference "From Morals to the Macabre in Translation for Children" held at the Pedagogical University of Kraków (April 4-5, 2017). She has been a member of European Society of Translation Studies since 2011.
Riitta Oittinen holds a PhD in Translation Studies and has taught translating (translating for children, translating the verbal and the visual as well as multimodality in translation) since 1987. In 2019 she - as artist, scholar, teacher, and mentor - received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award given by ChLA (the Children's Literature Association). She has taught translation in several countries in Europe and beyond and she serves as an Adjunct Professor (Docent) at the Universities of Tampere and Helsinki. She also holds the position of Senior Lecturer at Tampere University. She has written and illustrated well over 200 publications: books, articles, animated films, illustrations,