Keynote speaker

In keeping with the theme for METM25, MET and the language landscape: past, present and future, we welcome back Dorothy Kenny, keynote speaker at METM11.

Dorothy Kenny

Dorothy Kenny - METM25 keynote
Photo credit: Graham Webb
 Provisional keynote title: Dancing with the devil? On researching the use of AI in literary translation
(Abstract to follow)
 

Dorothy Kenny is full professor of translation studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. She holds a BA in French and German from Dublin City University, and an MSc in machine translation and a PhD in language engineering from the University of Manchester. Her current research interests include corpus-based analyses of translation and translator style, the relationship between artificial intelligence and literary translation, and approaches to the teaching of translation technology. Her most recent book is the open-access edited volume Machine translation for everyone: Empowering users in the age of artificial intelligence (2022). She is co-editor of the journal Translation Spaces and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.