Carol OSullivan: The invention of subtitling

A talk given at the University of Melbourne on August 9, 2018. Carol OSullivan is Director of Translation Studies in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol, where she convenes the postgraduate translation programmes and teaches translation theory and subtitling, among other subjects. Her research interests include audiovisual translation, translation history and literary translation. She is the author of Translating Popular Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) which considers multilingualism in film and the many ways in which film and translation engage with each other. Her current project is on the history of screen translation in the silent and early sound periods; she is the coeditor with JeanFrançois Cornu of the forthcoming volume The Translation of Films 19001950 (OUP, Proceedings of the British Academy). Her research interests in the field of audiovisual translation include the origins and development of subtitling, the ideological apparatus of subtitling, the (para)textual status o