Mag. Martina MAYER, BA

• Position
  Senior Lecturer
   
• At the department since
  01.10.2012
   
• Mother tongue
  German
   
• Educational language
  French, Spanish, English
   
• Languages of instruction
  French, German
   
• Main focus of teaching
  Introduction to cultural studies relevant to translation (BA)
  Gender studies in the field of translation (BA)
  Regional Studies/Cultural History of France (BA)
  Regional Studies/Cultural History of Austria (BA)
  Translation Management (MA)
  Translation-related text analysis/text comprehension French (BA)
  French > German translation (BA & MA; specialised translation, literary translation)
   
• Main areas of research / research interests
  Cultural studies relevant to translation
  Aspects of gender studies in the field of translation
  History of French language & translation
  Translation didactics
  Intralingual translation
   
• Link to research documentation
  Research Documentation - University of Innsbruck
   
• Current projects

  - Project for a doctoral thesis with a focus on Autriche in the Encyclopédie
  - Innovative Teaching and Translation Project Translational Hydraulics in collaboration with Stefan Achleitner from the working unit for hydraulics: Hydraulic Systems
  - Pedagogic translation project Translational Urban Waters in collaboration with Wolfgang Rauch and Manfred Kleidorfer from the working unit for environmental engineering; a continuation of the Translational Hydraulics project
  - Pedagogic translation project Schatten und Schmied in collaboration with Innsbruck University Press
   

• Administrative duties

  Supervision of Master’s final examinations in specialised translation (FR-DE)
  Supervision of Master’s final examinations in literary translation (FR-DE/DE-FR)
  Supervision of Bachelor’s theses (Cultural Studies: Austria, France)
  EMT contact person
  Overall coordination of the department's international relations:
  - Consultations outside area specific requests
  - Interface between the Department of Translation Studies  and the Faculty / IRO / OeAD / Language Assistant Programme / Student Representatives
  - Induction and/or support for new Departmental Coordinators
  - Creation and maintenance of information materials (slides, notices, email templates, etc.)
  - Content responsibility for the International section of the departmental website
  - Planning support for the introduction of international internships at the department
  - Quality management, crisis communication & special cases
  Person of contact for the DGT, European Commission
  Person of contact for the Multilingualism Unit of DG Translation, European Parliament
  Member of the EMT Network working group of the department
   

• Memberships
  National:
  Verband der Österreichischen NeuphilologInnen (VÖN)
  Austrian Society for the Study of the 18th Century
  
  At the University of Innsbruck:
  Forschungszentrum Kulturen in Kontakt (KiK)
  Research Platform Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI)

  Doctoral Programme Austrian Studies
   

• Honours
  2014: Nomination for the Lehreplus! prize of the University of Innsbruck
  2012: Prix de la France awared by the University of Innsbruck’s interdisciplinary programme focusing on France for the diploma thesis Sprachpflege und Sprachnormierung in Frankreich am Beispiel der Fachsprachen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, published by Innsbruck University Press in 2013