Vilelmini Sosoni

    Sosoni Vilelmini: Curriculum Vitae
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Vilelmini Sosoni is tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University in Greece where she also serves as Associate Head. She is the Director of the Laboratory for Economic, Legal, Political and Technical Translation at the Department, she is in charge of the Placements Scheme for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and a member of the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committee of the Ionian University. 

She has taught Specialised Translation in the United Kingdom at the University of Surrey, the University of Westminster, Roehampton University and the University of Wolverhampton, and in Greece at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Metropolitan College and the Institut Français d’ Athènes. She also has extensive professional experience having worked as a professional translator, editor, content creator and subtitler. She studied English Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Diplôme Universitaire in Trilingual Translation from the University of Strasbourg, an MA in Translation and a PhD in Translation and Text Linguistics from the University of Surrey.

Her research interests lie in the areas of the Translation of Institutional and Political Texts, Corpus Linguistics, Audiovisual Translation and Accessibility, as well as Machine Translation, Creativity and Cognitive Science. She is, among others, a founding member of the Laboratory "Language and Politics" of the Ionian University and the Greek Chapter of Women in Localization, a researcher in the Hellenic OCR Team and a member of the Advisory Board and the Management Board of the European Master’s in Technology for Translation and Interpreting (EM TTI) funded by Erasmus+. She is a recipient of an Imminent grant to research the use of Machine Translation and Post-editing for the translation of literature and she has participated in several EU-funded projects, notably Resonant, Resonant+, Trumpet, TraMOOC, Eurolect Observatory and Training Action for Legal Practitioners: Linguistic Skills and Translation in EU Competition Law, while she has edited several volumes and books on translation and published numerous articles in international journals and collective volumes.