Melissa Pawelski
Teaching Fellow
Email: Melissa dot Pawelski at warwick dot ac dot uk
Humanities Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Research interests
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Translating Philosophy and Theory, especially the works of Michel Foucault
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Philosophies and Theories of Translation
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French and German Languages and Philosophies
- Translation Studies
Publications
Pawelski, M. (2019) 'Traduire les concepts - le cas du supplice dans Surveiller et punir', in Palimpsestes 33, pp. 53-65.
Translations
Nicolaysen, R. (2020), 'Foucault in Hamburg. Notes on a One-Year-Stay, 1959-1960', in Theory, Culture and Society, transl. by M. Pawelski, published online, doi:10.1177/0263276420950457
Conferences
Presentation
Philosophy in/on Translation
Online Symposium University of Vienna, Austria (9-10th September 2021)
Paper: 'Between Körper and Leib - Foucault's idea of the body following Nietzsche': https://transphil.univie.ac.at/
Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies (SFS)
Online (28-30th June 2021)
Paper: 'Michel Foucault's concept of pouvoir between 'Gewalt' and 'Macht': A translational inquiry'
La réception de la pensée française contemporaine au prisme de la traduction
Université Paris 3 La Sorbonne Nouvelle (12-13th October 2019)
Paper 'Lire Michel Foucault en anglais: L'exemple de Surveiller et punir'
Organisation
Vitality and Resilience. Creative Thinking as Survival and Research as a Way of Life
Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference (online, 28 May 2021, co-organised)
Passages
Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference (online, 29 July 2020)
French Studies Bulletin special issue (Introduction): https://academic.oup.com/fsb/issue/42/159
Translating Philosophy and Theory - Style, Rhetoric and Concepts
Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, One Day Interdisciplinary Conference (11 May 2019)
Organiser (HRC Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2019)
PG Annual Symposium of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Questioning the disappearance of disciplinary boundaries, University of Warwick (23 May 2018)
Organiser & Speaker 'Connecting knowledges: Translation Studies as an interdiscipline
Qualifications
BA (Université de Lyon, France), MSc by Research (Swansea University, UK), PhD (Warwick, submitted and awaiting examination)
Advice and Feedback Hours
Wednesdays 10-11am
Office number H2.18 (Humanities Building, Central Campus)
Please email me if you wish to meet me at a different time.