is a PhD researcher in Translation Studies at KU Leuven (Campus Kulak Kortrijk). She obtained an MA in Western Literature at KU Leuven in 2015. As a member of the research group Translation and Intercultural Transfer, she is particularly interested in the cultural role of translation and transfer in specific historical and sociocultural contexts. Her PhD project, supervised by prof. Lieven D’hulst, is part of a larger interdisciplinary research project on the emergence and evolution of translation policies in 19th-century Belgium (1830-1914). In her research, she focuses on the translation and transfer practices in the legal and administrative domains in 19th-century Belgium and their influence on the development of a Flemish legal language and culture.
E-mail: heleen.vangerwen@kuleuven.be
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