Dr Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin

university teacher

Dr Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, Dott. in Lingue (Roma, La Sapienza), Ph.D. (N.U.I.)

Office: Room 314, Arts Millenium Building
Tel: 353-91-492240
E-mail:  laura.mcloughlinnuigalway.ie

Research Interests:

• Translation Studies: audiovisual translation
• Language teaching methodology
• Applied Linguistics
• 20th Century Italian Poetry 
• 20th Century Literature and Civilization

Dr Incalcaterra McLoughlin is part of a EU consortium awarded a total grant of €399,433 under the EU Lifelong Learning Programme (EACEA: Education Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency)   for a project entitled ClipFlair Foreign Language Learning through Interactive Revoicing and Captioning of Clips (project to run for 30 months from December 2011).
Participants within NUI Galway: Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin (coordinator); Dorothy Ní Uigín and Rose Ní Dhubhda (Acadamh). EU Consortium: Universitat Pompeu Frabra (Spain), Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (Greece), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), Imperial College London (UK), Universitatea ”Babeș-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca Facultatea de Litere (Romania), Universidad de Deusto (Spain/Basque Countries), Tallinn University (Estonia), University of Warsaw (Poland), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), NUI Galway.

Dr Incalcaterra McLoughlin was the principal researcher for a collaborative project funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences entitled Pedagogical implications of analysis and production of subtitles for advanced foreign language learners (2008-2010).

Recent Publications:

Books:

Audiovisual Translation. Subtitling in theory and in practice. Incalcaterra-McLoughlin, Biscio, Ni Mhainnin eds, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011 pp.285.  
La macchina dell'estasi. Note interpretative sulla poesia di Ermina Passannanti.  Novi Ligure: Edizioni Jocker,  2007, pp.80.
Spazio e spazialità nella poesia italiana del Novecento, edited by Laura McLoughlin, Leicester:  Troubador Publishing, 2005,  pp.223.  
Italiano per Economisti,(co-authors : L.Pla-Lang, G. Schiavo-Rotheneder),Florence, Alma Edizioni, 2003 pp.123.

Journals:

Co-founder and co-editor of La Libellula, internationally refereed online journal of Italian literary and translation studies. http://www.lalibellulaitalianistica.it/

Selected articles:

“Learn through Subtitling”, co-authored with J. Lertola, in Audiovisual translation, Incalcaterra-McLoughlin, Biscio, Ni Mhainnin eds, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011, pp 243-263.
"Subtitles in Translators’ Training: A Model of Analysis", in Romance Studies, Vol.27 No. 3, July 2009, 192-204.
"Inter-semiotic translation in foreign language learning. The case of subtitles", in Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning. Ed. by Arndt Witte, Theo Harden, Alessandra Ramos de Oliveira Harden, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009, 227-244.
"Evaluation of the Internet as a language learning tool", in Language Education in Ireland:  current practice and future needs, Acts of the 2001 Irish Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Maynooth.  Dublin:  IRAAL, December 2006, pp.112-119.
"The language of the senses.  A cross-gender thread from Antonin Artaud to Erminia Passannanti via Amelia Rosselli" in Erminia Passannanti, Machine, Leicester:  Troubador, 2005, pp.111-120. 
"Uno slancio positivo oltre il soggettivismo lirico: la poesia di Biagia Marniti", in Punto di vista. Rassegna di arti e letteratura, Libreria Padovana, N.41, 2004, pp.197-198.
"La citta' come dinamismo nella poesia sperimentale italiana", in From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli. Italian poetry in the Sixties and Seventies, Troubador Publishing ltd, Leicester, 2004.pp.11-20.
"Pesca di Notte", translation of Dermot Healy's poem "Nightfishing", in Translation Ireland, Dublin, vol. 14, n. 3, Summer 2002. "Teaching evaluation and decision-making competence in translation courses" in Translation Ireland, Dublin, March 2001.
"An exercise in poetry translation: Dino Campana's "Genova", in Translation Ireland, Ireland, Dublin, June 2000.
"L'uso di materiale autentico nel laboratorio linguistico: il caso Bianca" in Tuttitalia, n.21, Rugby (UK), Spring 2000.
SentiSenti 1, (Italian audiovisual course for beginners), Department of Italian, NUI, Galway 1998, 1999, 2000.

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