Carol O'Sullivan

Carol O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Bristol, where she teaches modules on translation and subtitling. Her research interests include audiovisual translation, translation history, literary translation and public understanding of translation and subtitling. She is the author of Translating Popular Film (2011) and the editor, with Jean-François Cornu, of the edited volume The Translation of Films 1900-1950, published in 2019. Her principal current project is on the history of subtitling in the English-speaking world.

The project

Title: Centenary of Film Subtitling: from 1929 to 2029

Selection of publications

Articles, chapters and contributions to collective volumes (selection)

• Vieira, Lucas Nunes, Carol O’Sullivan, Xiaochun Zhang and Minako O’Hagan (2022). Machine translation in society: insights from UK users. Language Resources and Evaluation, 1-22.
• Vieira, Lucas Nunes, Minako O’Hagan and Carol O’Sullivan (2021). Understanding the societal impacts of machine translation: a critical review of the literature on medical and legal use cases. Information, Communication & Society, 24(11), 1515-1532.
• O’Sullivan, Carol and Jean-François Cornu (2019, eds.) Translation of Films 1900-1950. Oxford: OUP/Proceedings of the British Academy.
• O’Sullivan, Carol (2018). “New and Improved Subtitle Translation”: Representing Translation in Film Paratexts. In Irene Ranzato and Serenella Zanotti (eds.). i. London/New York: Routledge, pp.265-279.
• O’Sullivan, Carol and Jean-François Cornu (2018). ‘History of Audiovisual Translation’. In Luis Pérez González (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, London/New York: Routledge, pp.15-30.
• Cornu, Jean-François and Carol O’Sullivan (2016). ‘The Translation of Films: History, Preservation, Research, and Exhibition’ In Journal of Film Preservation 94, pp.25-31
• O’Sullivan, Carol (2011) Translating Popular Film. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan