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Professor Sergey Tyulenev

Professor / Director of Postgraduate Studies


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Professor / Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures+44 (0) 191 33 44663

Biography

I hold a PhD in linguistics (2000, Moscow State University) and a PhD in Translation Studies (2009, School of translation and interpretation, University of Ottawa).

I have conducted research in translation studies, especially in the sociology of translation and the epistemology of translation studies. 

More specifically, my primary academic interest is translation as a social activity. I have applied several sociological theories (notably, Luhmann’s social systems theory, Bourdieu’s theory of social fields and Habermas’ theory of communicative action) to various aspects of the translation history of Kievan Rus, Muscovy and Russia. I have studied the social role of translation in the westernization of Russia in the eighteenth century (my research has been published as a monograph), the role women-translators played in the Russian history of translation; I published on the aspects of gender and sexuality as they manifested themselves in the Russian translation history. I am the Editor of the Routledge Introductions to Translation and Interpreting series. I have co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sociology.

I am the Director of PG Research at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK.

I teach courses in translation theory, translation history and sociology of translation as well as contribute to the specialised English-Russian translation module.

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