Dr Sameh F Hanna
Lecturer in Translation Studies and Arabic
Tel: +44 (0) 161 295 2215
E-Mail: s.hanna@salford.ac.uk
Room: Maxwell 826
At Salford I am a lecturer in translation studies and Arabic and the Residence Abroad tutor for Arabic in the School of Languages; prior to that I was postgraduate tutor.
After studying English literature, linguistics and literary theory at Ain Shams University (Egypt), I moved to University of Manchester to study translation and intercultural studies and complete a PhD on the sociological aspects of the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies in Egypt. In 2006 I was awarded an Andrew W Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in the humanities at University College Londonl. I have taught at a number of universities including Academy of Arts in Cairo, American University in Cairo, University of Manchester and University of Salford. In 2007 I moved back to Salford to take up a lectureship in translation studies and Arabic.
My main research interest is in the area of sociology of translation, with particular focus on the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of drama translation into Arabic. Part of my research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences. I am also interested in the social/cultural history of translation into Arabic and would welcome enquiries from potential PhD candidates with interest in any of these areas. I currently supervise PhD students working on the following topics: translation of metaphor in economic texts, translation of Islamic/Islamist discourses into English and subtitling mythological and religious references into Arabic.
I co-organised a number of international and national research events, including the first conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) in 2005 and a one-day symposium on the sociology of translation and interpreting at the University of Salford (2010).
I am one of the founding members of IATIS and currently sit on the editorial board of Sayyab Translation Journal
My full profile is available here
My USIR profile is available here
