Teresa Maria Menano Seruya
Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Lisbon. She has taught German Literature and Culture, History and Theory of Translation and Intercultural Communication.
Researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture (CECC), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she is co-director of the CECC projects “Intercultural Literature in Portugal 1930-2000: a Critical Bibliography” and “Translation and Censorship of Foreign Books During the New State”. She is currently researching and publishing on the history of translation in Portugal, Translation Studies and German-language Literature and Culture. Literary translator of German (Thomas Mann, Goethe, Tucholsky, Döblin, and Kafka, among others).
Recent Titles:
Seruya, Teresa. 2016. “Doing translation history and writing a history of translation: the main issues and some examples concerning Portuguese culture”. @Rosa, Alexandra Assis & Huang Guowen (eds.) 2016. East and West Encounters: Translation Across Time. Journal of World Languages, 3:1, 5-21. [+info]
Seruya, Teresa. 2018. Misérias e Esplendores da Tradução no Portugal do Estado Novo. Lisboa: Universidade Católica. ISBN e-book: 9789725406243. [+info]
Seruya, Teresa. 2019. “Tradução, entre Propaganda e Diplomacia. A História da Edição Alemã dos Discursos de Salazar”. @ Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, Vol. 3 (Digital Online Version), e Vol. 14: Theory and Practice of Translation in the Portuguese Speaking World. Ed. Thomas Sträter and Marcel Vejmelka. Univ- California. [quod vide]
Seruya, Teresa. 2020. “Ideias sobre tradução durante o Estado Novo em Portugal (1934-1974)”. @ Bennett, Karen (ed.) 2020. Translation under Dictatorships. Translation Matters 2/2, 13-27. [+info]
Cassilda Alcobia-Murphy (translator)
A translator for over 20 years, specializing in the translation of academic texts from Portuguese and French into English, as well as translating and subtitling Portuguese films for foreign markets. She teaches English language and Literary Translation at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and is also a PhD researcher in Culture Studies, with a focus on Irish contemporary literature and visual arts.