Riitta Oittinen - Translating Picturebooks: Revoicing the Verbal, the Visual and the Aural for a Child Audience

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Hasnaa Chakir (PhD) is a part-time assistant professor of English at ENCG (Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco), and an advisor to a kindergarten, primary, and secondary school. Her main research interest focuses on translating for children and young adults in the Arab world. She has translated Moroccan popular tales from Arabic into English.

Xi Chen (PhD) is a lecturer in University International College at Macau University of Science and Technology. She gas gained her PhD in English Linguistics at the University of Macau. Her recent publication is Mapping Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies via bibliometrics: a survey of journal publications in Perspectives: Studies in Translatology .

Samir Diouny (PhD) is professor of Linguistics at the University of Chouaib Doukkali in El Jadida-Morocco. He is the author of the book Some Aspects Moroccan Arabic Agrammatism (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010). His collaborative interdisciplinary research includes projects on first language acquisition and cognitive processes in translation and interpreting.

Lincoln Fernandes has received his MA and PhD degrees in Applied Linguistics to English Language from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He is currently a lecturer in Translation Studies at the same university. His main research areas of interest are in Corpus-based Translation Studies, Translation of Childrens Literature, and Translator Education.

Chiara Galletti holds a degree in translation from the University of Trieste and a Masters degree in literary translation from the University of Venice, Italy. She is currently a doctoral student in Translation Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her PhD thesis concentrates on Italian author Bianca Pitzornos indirect translations. Her publications include academic articles, reviews, and short stories for children.

Melissa Garavini (PhD) obtained her doctorate from the University of Turku with a thesis focused on Finnish-Italian translations of Mauri Kunnass picturebooks. Her research interests include Translation Studies and picturebooks. She collaborates with MeTRa, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Translation and Mediation for and by Children, at the University of Bologna.

Anne Ketola is a doctoral student at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her doctoral thesis examines wordimage interaction in technical translation. Her other research interests involve the translation of childrens literature, particularly from a multimodally-oriented perspective. She has published in journals such as Translation Studies, trans-kom , and Connexions .

Roberto Martnez Mateo (PhD) is a lecturer in the Modern Philologies Department at the University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain. His research examines the methodologies to measure Translation Quality, the ways to promote the Communicative Skills of English, and the multimodal relationship between images and words in the translation of picturebooks.

Riitta Oittinen (PhD) works as a university lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Tampere, Finland, where she teaches translation. She has over 200 publications, including books and articles, 40 picturebook translations, 30 animated films, 30 art exhibitions, and five illustrated books. Her best-known books include Translating for Children (2000) and Kuvakirja kntjn kdess (2004).

Camila Alvares Pasquetti is a PhD candidate at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, where she researches the translation of travel books for children. Her recent publications include: When travelers and locals meet (2016), and A multimodal study of the This is book series in its translation into Brazilian Portuguese (Heberle, 2016).