Tamara Barakat

I joined Strathclyde as a Lecturer in Translation Studies in 2023.  I contribute to teaching on both the MSc Applied Translation programme (hosted at MEU, Jordan) and the MSc Applied Translation and Interpreting programme at Strathclyde. I am also co-lead of the Culture, Communication and Creative Practice research group at the Department of Humanities.

I completed my PhD in Translation Studies at Durham University in 2022, where I also contributed to PGT teaching. Before that, I taught English as a Foreign Language at Birzeit University and worked as an in-house translator (Arabic/English). 

My research explores the connections between translation and memory, specifically within the Palestinian context. I investigate the transformations oral history and memory undergo as they are translated across different media, languages and spatiotemporal spheres. I am especially interested in the material, embodied, multimodal, and experiential dimensions of translation. Drawing on case studies from the arts, oral history archives, museums, literature, and (in)tangible heritage, my work offers insights into the collaborative creative translation processes through which cultural practitioners remediate Palestinian memory, heritage, and lived traumatic experiences, enabling their survival and continued relevance to the socio-political concerns of the present.

I am a member of the Experiential Translation Network and the History and Translation Network.

I welcome PhD applications in areas including: translation, memory, and heritage; translation and archives; translation and the arts; translation and translator history; multimodal, material, and experiential translation; and sociological approaches to translation.

• Translation Studies
• Memory Studies
• Palestinian Studies
• Intersemiotic translation 
• Oral history and translation