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Serena Talento
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Serena Talento has been assistant professor at the chair of Literatures in African Languages at the University of Bayreuth since 2015.
She studied African Languages, Literatures in African Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy). In addition, she furthered her academic training in Belgium and Zambia.
From October 2012 to July 2018 she was a Research Associate at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). In this framework, she wrote her PhD dissertation “Framing texts/framing social spaces: The conceptualisation of literary translation and its discourses in three centuries of Swahili literature”. In this work she studied the framing of translated (or assumedly translated) texts and views on literary translation into Swahili in three different historical settings to explore how the discourse on translation correlates to the literary, historical and social field of reception.
Academic Degrees
| 2018 |
Doctorate: African Studies, Bayreuth International School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth; Disputation: July 2018 (Dr. phil. Summa cum laude); Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Said Khamis. Mentors: Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke, Prof. Dr. Paul F. Bandia. |
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2011 |
Master of Arts: Languages and Cultures of Africa, University of Naples “L’Orientale”. |
| 2008 | Bachelor of Arts: Languages and Cultures of Africa, University of Naples “L’Orientale”. |
Professional Background
| Since 2015 |
Assistant professor at the chair of Literatures in African Languages |
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Since 2019 |
Research Associate of the University of the Free State |
Other
Co-editor of the Online Journal Swahili Forum, hosted by the University of Leipzig
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
I am specialised in Swahili language and literature, with a focus on the history of literary exchanges from and into Swahili.
My research is embedded in a historical and sociological framework: I have widely worked on literary translation from the 18th to the present, and sharpened an eye on the social relevance of texts.
Research topics:
- Literary exchanges from and into Swahili
- Sociology of translation
- Comparative Literature with a focus on Africa
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
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Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
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Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Serena Talento
Research Assistant, Literatures in African Languages
University of Bayreuth
Literatures in African languages
95440 Bayreuth
Room: 17 (B III)
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-5368
E-mail: serena.talento@uni-bayreuth.de