About Silvina Katz

Silvina Katz is a researcher at the Open University specializing in sensory perception in literature, the role of the senses in creating atmosphere, and the Argentinian short story. She earned her PhD in 2024 with a thesis titled A Sensory Study for the Translation of Atmosphere in Silvina Ocampo's Short Stories. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Séverine Hubscher-Davidson, Prof. Fiona Doloughan, and Dr. Jerome Devaux.

With extensive experience as a Spanish tutor, translator, and interpreter, Silvina has also worked as an associate lecturer at the University of Northampton, where she specialized in Health and Law modules for the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting.

Professional Credentials

  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (MCIL)-Chartered Linguist committed to Continuing Professional Development
  • Member of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI)
  • Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (MITI)
  • Member of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
  • Member of the Feminist Translation Network (FTN)
  • Sensory Studies Directory (Postdoc Researcher)

Education

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Translation
  • Master’s in Translation (Spanish/English)
  • PhD in Translation Studies

Publications

Katz, Silvina (2024). A Sensory Study for the Translation of Atmosphere in Silvina Ocampo’s Short Stories. PhD thesis The Open University.

Katz, Silvina and Hubscher-Davidson, Séverine (2022). Hermeneutics as a route to translating auditory aspects of emotion in Silvina Ocampo’s fictional worlds: An analysis of Okno, el esclavo. Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics, 2 pp. 207–241.

Available at Open Research Online

Impact and Engagement

  • 2019: ALTA42 Conference: Sight and Sound, November 7–10, 2019. Panel: Poetry of the Senses: Translating Perception and the Sensorial
    Conference Details

  • 2020: Powerful Literary Fiction Texts Conference. Paper: The Sounds of Silvina Ocampo’s Fictional Worlds
    Conference Report

  • 2021: Workshop “Perspectives on Perspective” at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Paper: The Secret of Those Eyes: A Leitmotif as Viewpoint in Silvina Ocampo’s Hombres Animales Enredaderas (‘Men Animals Vines’)

  • 2022: 15th World Congress of Semiotics. Paper: A Sensory (and Emotional) Reading of Silvina Ocampo’s Short Story Hombres Animales Enredaderas
    Congress Details

  • 2022: CIOL Webinar, December 2, 2022
    Topic: Managing Emotions – A Linguist’s Choice and Use of Words
    Webinar Details

  • 2023: Joint Publication with Dr. Séverine Hubscher-Davidson
    Title: Hermeneutics as a Route to Translating Auditory Aspects of Emotion in Silvina Ocampo’s Fictional Worlds: An Analysis of Okno, el esclavo
    Journal: Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics 2, pp. 207–241
    Read the Article
    DOI: 10.52116/yth.vi2.46

  • April 2024: Immersion Symposium, University of Nottingham. Paper: Immersion in Translation: A Sensory Study of Silvina Ocampo’s Short Story Hombres Animales Enredaderas

  • June 2024: PALA 2024 Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Paper: Experiencing Silvina Ocampo's (Fictional) Houses: Understanding the Role of Domestic and Affective Space in Shaping Atmosphere and How Translation Can Help
    PALA Conference Details

  • 28-29 September 2024: IAPTI 2024 Conference, Bursa University, Turkey. Paper: From Translator to Scholar: Translating Sensory Atmospheres in Silvina Ocampo’s Short Stories  https://www.iapti.org/BSconference/silvina-katz-2/

  • 16 October 2024: Lecture "Using close reading and corpus analytic methods to translate Ocampo's atmospheres"-Open University
  • 17-18th October 2024: International Conference "The olfactory story of Perfume in literature, psychology, and the arts"  at Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Rumania. Paper: Translating Olfactory Imagery in Ocampo's Short Stories. Conference details: https://search.app/PEF4Brt7tcTZmFpw9
  • 4-6 November 2024: "Literature Matters" conference. Open University. Paper: Reading through atmospheres- a sensory study of Silvina Ocampo's short stories

Forthcoming

Services Offered

  • Specialised language advice, peer review, and consultations (Spanish from Argentina; translation studies; emotion and senses in translation)
  • Tutoring/training/examination in language and translation matters
  • Translation from/into Spanish (with a special interest in Literary Translations)

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