Professor Dr. Sophie Thorkildsen

Biography

Sophie Thorkildsen is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Humanities, focusing on Translation Studies. Her research project, titled 'Swinging Pendulum Stopped Clock?', investigates shifts in translation norms concerning Anglophone literary classics within the Danish literary system. Thorkildsen employs a scalable, data-driven approach to map diachronic translational tendencies, starting from Danish retranslations of English-language canonical literature. She examines computational linguistics to enhance traditional descriptive methods of retranslation studies through building extensive corpus samples of Danish literary translations from the late 1800s to the present. By aligning source texts with surface-level indicators utilized in translation strategies, she aims to design an adaptable system that traces the dynamic networks influencing translation production. Her academic focus includes robust frameworks for large-scale mapping that support targeted qualitative studies of individual cases. Thorkildsen's primary research fields encompass Translation Studies, Retranslation, Literary Translation, History of Translation, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics.

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