Research Grants

2012-14: Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, $80,000)

Additional Information

I convene the undergraduate final-year dissertation module, and have supervised several MA dissertations and translation projects.

I am currently co-supervising three PhD theses, on translation and the phenomenology of reading, on translation in video games, and on AI translation and mental health.

Research Overview

Véronique carries out research in the pragmatics of translation, cognitive studies, and medical humanities.

Recent publications include two journal special issues she has edited for L'Esprit Créateur (Johns Hopkins, 2018) and Translation and Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2020).

She has also edited the first book on "literary back-translation", in collaboration with scholars from the US to the UK, France, Italy, Turkey, and China. Her own contributions in the book include a substantial introduction theorizing literary back-translation and delineating its ethical and philosophical implications, as well as a double chapter, "Theorizing Back-Translation: From Antoine Berman on Retranslation to the Three Layers of The Monk" (Edinburgh UP; in press).

Her second monograph, Literary Translation and Mental health, offers a comparative analysis of the translation processes of seven modernist writers-translators with lived experience of mental ill health - Friedrich Hölderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, H.D. and Antonin Artaud - and theorizes translation as a powerful form of introspection impacting identity formation and cognition.

Her current research project investigates the therapeutic value of the translation process for NHS patients on the autism-schizophrenia spectrum.

PhD Supervision Interests

Medical Humanities, Pragmatics of Translation, translation theory and practice, narratives of illness, lived experiences of mental ill health, autism-schizophrenia spectrum.