Pete Freeth

@pjfreeth.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Translation at London Met | Translator visibility, ethics and paratextuality | Assistant ed. Translation in Society | translator DE-EN | he-him.

Very pleased to be taking our panel from #LBF discussing the #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign 5 years on and developing it into a research project! Translators! Please complete the survey! It's live until Friday 19 June and can be accessed here: forms.office.com/e/NmXus5qRZe

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The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Calling all translators - we need your views and insights on our #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign. Five years on from its launch, we’re working with Dr Pete Freeth (London Metropolitan University) to find out more about the campaign’s impact. buff.ly/uRuoZ1O

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🟢 Now available: The green OA for my chapter “Yes: I translated it!”: Visibility and the performance of translatorship in the digital paratextual space Here, I argue translatorship is performance and is key to understanding (literary) translator (in)visibility repository.londonmet.ac.uk/8802/

“Yes: I translated it!”: Visibility and the performance of translatorship in the digital paratextual space | London Met Repository

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72 per cent of universities are expected to be in deficit by the end of the year, affecting #modernlanguages across de country. “The single biggest problem facing our country is the catastrophic decline in language learning, both in schools and now at universities” inews.co.uk/news/univers...

Language courses in danger of dying out as universities open redundancy schemes

There are 88 universities undergoing redundancies, restructuring schemes or department closures

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It's bittersweet being back at my desk after six weeks of paternity leave. While I'm looking forward to the upcoming semester and further developing projects from 2024, it's been an absolute joy to have so much time dedicated purely to my son, wife and dogs. Here's to family in 2025 x

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Pleased to see my chapter reflecting on my experiences teaching the Amanda Gorman's translators controversies as a white British lecturer is out (yes, this includes a discussion of the nomenclature & the importance of how we frame these controversies in the plural!) www.routledge.com/Teaching-Tra...

Teaching Translation: Contexts, Modes and Technologies

The field of translation and interpreting (T&I) training has been undergoing rapid and far-reaching transformation in recent years, as a result of technological advances and sweeping shifts in the int...

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Not sure if writing an 8-point to-do list is a good way to end the week, but such is life when prepping for paternity leave at the end of a very busy semester. Happy Friday, all!

Starting the week planning a class on queer approaches in translation studies, which is a lovely excuse to discuss brat, digital remix culture and breaking down hegemonic power systems/heteronormative binaries of various kinds. Happy Monday, all!

Today's teaching: Gender and feminist approaches in translation with my final year theory module, followed by sentence-level meaning in my first-year linguistics module. Nice to have such varied topics in the same day and interesting to draw links between the two

Proofing my upcoming edited volume on visibility and genuinely not sure how some of these little errors made it through. It's normal right? I'm not just a bad editor? 😅

Submitted my first "proper" funding bid yesterday (ie not an ECR fellowship). I know how competitive the funding landscape is (and in some cases an actual, literal lottery), but it feels like a little professional milestone regardless of outcome!