Via Astore 73, 73042, Casarano (Lecce), Italy

Irene Preite

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Profile

I am a hard working individual with good translation, subtitling and interpreting skills, currently expanding my network of clients. I am highly organized and efficient. I already work as a freelancer, andin August 2016, I finished a 3 month internship as Project Manager Assistant for the translation company Global Voices, andI also worked as a volunteer for the University of Essex, subtitling some promotional material, and as an assistant, being trained for academic teaching, while I was attending my second MA in Translation, Interpreting and Subtitling. My language pair is English-Italian and French-Italian.

Education

Essex University – MA in Translation, Interpreting and Subtitling

(October 2016 – September 2017)

Dissertation title: My Mother: Demonology. Translating the Barely Communicative in Kathy Acker

Chinese Language Intensive Course – Beijing Normal University

(August 2017)

Attendance of an intensive language program called "Study China" at Beijing Normal University, after winning a scholarship granted by the University of Manchester. The intensive course focused on studying Chinese while attending seminars aiming at starting a business in China.

Universityof Salento – Laurea specialistica in Traduzione tecnico- scientifica e interpretariato

(September 2013 – March 2016)

Dissertation title: Critical Discourse Analysis and Reformulation Approach to The Dublin III Regulation

Universityof Salento - Laurea triennale in Lingue, letterature e comunicazione interculturale

(September 2009 – March 2013)

Dissertation title: The Schengen Convention: Critical Discourse Analysis and Intercultural Approach

Employment History

Author of an issue on the academic publication Lingue e Linguaggi

(September 2017)

Paper submitted to the academic journal Lingue e Linguaggi (forthcoming publication) cured by the Università del Salento

Title: A Critical Discourse Analysis and Reformulation Approach to the Dublin III Regulation

Academic teaching trainee at the University of Essex

(March 2017- June 2017)

I embarked on a training process at the University of Essex in order to get more experience in the academic world, learning how the marking criteria works, the aspect to focus on during a test revision and understanding the type and gravity of mistakes made by students. I therefore have eye for details and I am a skilled proofreader and linguist.

Subtitler for the University of Essex

(March 2017- April 2017)

I offered as a volunteer forsubtitling projects concerning promotional material for the University. I was in charge of subtitling and revising the material. I am a proficient user of Wincaps Quantum and VisualSubSync.

Translator and proofreader for the University of East Anglia

(March 2017)

I have recently taken part in a translation project involving the University of East Anglia. I was asked to translate an insurance text from English into Italian and to proofread the material provided by another translator.

Italian language mentor at the University of Essex

(November 2016-March 2017)

I have been working as a language mentor for a group of three students, being part of a program created by the University of Essex. As a mother tongue speaker I helped them develop and improve their oral skills and pronunciation, as well as grammar and lexis.

Project Manager Assistant

(May 2016-August 2016)

At the end of May 2016 I started a 3 month internship at the translation and interpreting company Global Voices. I was in charge of the proofreading and editing of the translation projects. Part of my job was also to allocate them to specific qualified linguists. I was also assigned some transcription projects in English and Italian and I am now still collaborating with this company as a freelance translator.

Lecturer

(May 2016)

In May 2016 I was chosen as a lecturer during a HOME seminar in Amiens (France) organised by the GAS group to deliver a lecture about EU laws in matter of immigration and asylum, analysing the Dublin III Regulation and other legal EU texts using a Critical Discourse Analysis and reformulation approach.

Freelance Translator

(2012-Present)

Since 2012 I have been translating as a freelancer, dealing with different types of texts, including interviews, business emails and contracts, ebooks (Mr Longarm by SimonettaPalamà), websites (Torre Castiglione Camping, AlbergodeiSapori), and menus (Charlot, Arte Bianca). I also worked for five months as intern and translator for the onlus Translators4children, dealing with the creation of bilingual medical databases. I am therefore experienced in medical translation.

Journalist for the web magazine “Daninseries”

(2014- Present)

Since 2014 I have been writing three articles per week for a famous Italian web magazine, occasionally translating interviews and video from English into Italian.

Key Skills

Proficiency in all areas of Microsoft Office
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Good knowledge of Cat tools (Trados, MemoQ)
Good command of subtitling software (Wincaps Quantum, VisualSubSync, GTT)
Expert in CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) and Pragmatics

Certificates

SDL TradosGetting Started, Intermediate and Post-Editing

(July 2017)

Big Essex Award

(June 2017)

Big Essex Gold Award

Erasmus+ OLS Language Assessment

(August 2016)

Language Assessment (English): C2 (according to the CEFR)

Ielts Certificate

(October 2015)

Listening: 9.0; Reading:8.0 ; Writing: 7.0; Speaking: 8.0;Total: 8.0

Hobbies & Interests

I am a clothing designer and a tailor; from 2009 to 2014 I took singingand guitar classes. I am also a makeup artist and I took part in a makeup workshop focusing on prosthesis run by Francesco Sanseverino; I am also an archer.

References

References are available upon request.