Biography
Valentina Ragni, PhD, is a researcher based at the University of Leeds, where she is working on projects in the fields of Translation Studies and Audiovisual Translation. Her work explores the potential of AVT inside and outside the foreign language (FL) classroom, through the use and the creation of subtitles. Her research interests include second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, FL teaching, translation, statistical methods and experimental technologies, such as eye tracking. She graduated cum laude from the School of Interpreters and Translators of the University of Trieste before moving to Leeds, where she completed a MA in Screen Translation Studies and a PhD in experimental AVT with an eye tracking study on the effects of reverse subtitles (L1 audio > L2 subtitles) on processing and memory. She teaches a number of courses at MA and BA levels and works as a freelance translator and proofreader.
Email: V.Ragni@leeds.ac.uk