Masters Dissertations & Portfolios: Recent submissions
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You Must Kill Mel’s Baby to Proceed
(Trinity College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities and Culture, 2024)In video games, enemies are expendable beings, obstacles meant to provide some challenge by impeding the player’s path forward. The practice harkens back to the beginnings of the medium: four ghosts chase Pac-Man around a ... -
Crossing la(s) frontera(s): The Multilingualism and Translation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands / La Frontera
(Trinity College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, 2024)This dissertation examines the manner in which the translations of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands / La Frontera, negotiate its multilingual practice across languages, given its central focus on the Spanish-English binary. ... -
In Her Words: Translating Womanhood
(Trinity College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, 2024)The texts included in this translation portfolio are written by women from a variety of geographical contexts, including Antigua, Ecuador, México, Sudan, and others. The texts span from 17th century precolonial México to ... -
Talking to Myself, Looking in the Mirror: Insights into Language Use and Self-Representation in Personal Narratives
(Trinity College Dublin, 2024)In 1994, Alice Kaplan put forward the term ‘language memoir’ to refer to those personal narratives written from the perspective of a life lived in a multiplicity of languages, where those languages were understood as an ... -
ΛΠΗΔ ΗΡΔ: A Greek Radio Drama (Translation)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2023)Constrained writing works, and even more specifically lipogrammatic works of literature, are not among the most frequently translated genres, especially into the Greek language. The aim of this paper is to examine how a ... -
Making an Infamous Love Story Sing: Translating Bonnie and Clyde the Musical into Spanish
(Trinity College Dublin, 2024)Bonnie and Clyde are undoubtedly one of the most notorious murderous couples. Their names are internationally recognised and curiosity about their life and times has continued to intrigue people over the intervening decades. ... -
Children’s Literature in Machine Translation: How Neural Machine Translation and Large Language Models translate features found in Children’s Literature
(2023)The present dissertation explores the potential of Machine Translation (MT) in comprehending and accurately translating specific features found in children's literature, with a focus on the book "Φρικαντέλα, η μάγισσα ... -
Big Emotions, Big World: Translating Relationships in Literature
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Gendered and Racialised Ambiguity: An Exploration of Métisses Women’s Complex Identities and Representations in French-African contexts
(2022)The term métis a French word referring to a person of mixed ancestry - which, for the purposes of this research, will designate a person specifically of ‘black’ and ‘white’ parentage - despite its absence of biological ... -
Rest in Peace: Exploring digital condolence discourse on RIP.ie before, during, and after COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities and Culture, 2023)This dissertation explores the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mourning practices, focusing on digital condolences shared on RIP.ie, the leading digital condolence site in Ireland. Understanding sociocultural ... -
'One Size’ Does Not Fit All: Translating Non-Binary Identities in Literature from English into Czech
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Are Linguistic Rights Respected in Taiwan?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, 2023)The objective of this dissertation is to examine how Taiwanese authorities protect linguistic rights and embody the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) perspectives in the policy documents Bilingual 2030 (National ... -
Solitary Women: a literary translation portfolio
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The representation of Orhan Pamuk's novels in Brazil as (indirect) translations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, 2023)The aim of this dissertation is to ask the following question: (how) are the books by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk representing themselves as (indirect) translations in Brazil? The methodology consists of analysing 7 novels ... -
"They wear green, so I support them": An exploration of identification with the Ireland rugby union team among British and Northern Irish identifying fans in Northern Ireland
This dissertation examines identification with the Ireland national rugby union team exhibited by residents of Northern Ireland who do not identify predominantly as Irish, but rather as Northern Irish or British. It does ...
