Doctoral research on theatre translation in Romanian universities in the 21th century: an overview

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Published: Jun 2, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2025.17.04
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Doctoral Research, Dramatic Text, Theatre Translation, Performability, Shakespeare

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Daniela Haisan
“Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava (Romania)

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By looking into 13 PhD dissertations defended in Romanian universities between 2007 and 2024 I aim to to offer a glimpse at doctoral research on theatre translation and the ways in which it reflects the current trends in (theatre) translation (theory) in general. The metacritical approach (based on various Translation Studies taxonomies) will extrapolate regularities and tendencies in doctoral research and also attempt to anticipate possible future lines of investigation in theatre translation studies (academia-wise).

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Haisan, D. (2025). Doctoral research on theatre translation in Romanian universities in the 21th century: an overview. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (17). https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2025.17.04
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Author Biography

Daniela Haisan, “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava (Romania)

Daniela Hăisan is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation in the Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences at Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania. She is a board member for academic journals such as Atelier de traduction, Concordia Discors vs. Discordia Concors, and Messages, Sages and Ages. She has been involved in research projects on cultural translation (2012-2016) and translation history (2019-2025). She has authored three books on translation—on Edgar Allan Poe’s translations into Romanian, on Oscar Wilde’s fairy-tales translated for Romanian children, and on writers as translators—as well as sixty papers on various subjects relating to translation and linguistics.

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