Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation (PDF)

Loukia Kostopoulou is Senior Teaching and Research Fellow in the Department of Translation Studies at the School of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and coordinator of the Media Research Group (at AUTh SemioLab). Her publications and research interests revolve around transmediality/intermediality and translation, audiovisual translation, and film studies. She is the author of Intermediality in European Avant-garde Cinema (2023), co-editor of The Fugue of the Five Senses and the Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium (2019), New Paths in Theatre Translation and Surtitling (2023), New Perspectives in Media Translation. Transcreating in the Digital Age (2024), and guest-editor of two forthcoming issues on intermedial crossovers in audiovisual media (Syn-thèses and Punctum).

Vasiliki Misiou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Intercultural Studies at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. As a professional translator, she has collaborated with several institutions, theatres, and publishing houses. Her publications and research interests focus on gender and/in translation, theatre translation, literary translation, paratexts and translation, as well as translation and semiotics. She is the author of The Renaissance of Women Translators in 19th-Century Greece (2023), co-editor of New Paths in Theatre Translation and Surtitling (2023), and she is currently co-editing a special issue on Gender and/in Drama Translation in the journal Translation Studies.