Aline Remael

Aline Remael is a Belgian translation scholar, best known for her work in audiovisual translation and media accessibility. Her impact in her chosen field is profound and she has been awarded the Jan Ivarsson Award f or her services to screen translation.

Biography After working as a teacher and a freelance translator and interpreter, Remael spent most of her active career as a translation scholar at the University of Antwerp, and was in 2018 rewarded with the Jan Ivarsson Award for invaluable services to the field of audiovisual translation. Since her retirement, she is emeritus Professor of Translation Theory, Interpreting and Audiovisual Translation/Media Accessibility at the Department of Applied Linguistics/Translators and Interpreters of the University of Antwerp. She is one of the founding members of the TransMedia Research Group. Even though Remael has published widely, she is probably best known to most translation students for her textbooks on subtitling, which she co-authored with Jorge Díaz Cintas. The first one, Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling appeared in 2007 and has been the standard textbook for subtitling courses in universities all over the world. It was superseded in 2021 by their new co-publication Subtitling: Concepts and Practices.

Selected publications

Remael, Aline. 2003. “Mainstream Narrative Film Dialogue and Subtitling: A Case Study of Mike Leigh's ‘Secrets and Lies (1996)”. In The Translator, 2003, 9, 2 nov, pp. 225 – 247 Diaz Cintas, Jorge, Pilar Orero & Aline Remael. 2007 Media for all: subtitling for the deaf, audio description, and sign language. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. Remael, Aline & Gert Vercauteren. 2010. “The translation of recorded audio description from English into Dutch”, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 18: 3, 155 — 171 Remael, Aline, Pilar Orero & Mary Carroll. 2012. Media for All 3. AVT and Media Accessibility at the Crossroads. Leiden: Brill Díaz Cintas, Jorge & Aline Remael. 2007. Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling. Manchester: St. Jerome. Díaz Cintas, Jorge & Aline Remael. 2021. Subtitling: Concepts and Practices. London: Routledge.