Anna Sourdille
Anna Sourdille
Anna Sourdille, BA BA MA (ORCID, u:cris) is a university assistant (predoc) at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. She studied philosophy, transcultural communication, and conference interpreting in Vienna (University of Vienna), Paris (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), and Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Sonja Pöllabauer, focuses on interpreting for LGBTQIA+ refugees. Her research interests include critical, queer, activist, so-called 'non-professional' and didactic aspects of translation and interpreting, as well as workplace and ethnographic field research.
Alongside her academic role, she delivers workshops on interpreting for LGBTQIA+ refugees. Previously, she was involved in the research project Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study (RETREX), led by Hanna Risku.