Dimitris Asimakoulas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1624941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitris |
| FAMILY NAME | Asimakoulas |
| SIGNATURE | ASIMAKOULAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3264-4807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The double-helix of creative writing and translation: Postgraduate translation students and tutors reflect on creativity, AI assistance and translation
Translation education typically emphasises transferrable skills needed for a career in the Language Services Industry. Writing, in conjunction with skills linked to creativity, has recently gained traction. This article builds upon previous work introducing a creative writing module for trainee translators. The objective here is to suggest a threshold concept or key idea with the potential to change how students perceive translation: writing prom…
Your translated memory or mine? Re-membering graphic novels in performed audio descriptions for The Cartoon Museum, London
This article offers a practical and theoretical exploration of a (highly) specialised type of comics re-mediation, namely, audio described (AD) comics for the Blind and Partially Sighted (BPS).Building on relevant work in comics studies and translation studies, it is argued that translation activity, broadly seen to include interlingual as well as intersemiotic translation (Jakobson 1959), helps rewrite original works.Translation is defined as a …
Audio described comics in the museum
Audio Description is typically used to describe the visual aspects of various cultural products in the creative industries: performed plays, films, sports matches, art gallery and museum items. Such descriptions offer alternative sensory input for blind or partially sighted audiences and have been the staple of research in Audiovisual Translation Studies. There are, however, rather few studies focusing on museum environments and none that examine…
How Balkan Am I? Translation and Cultural Intimacy Through an Albanian-Greek Lens
Historiographers, anthropologists and cultural studies experts have shown that discussions of identity in or about the Balkans have been traditionally linked to a sense of ‘deficiency.’ Given the history of conflict, the drive towards greater European integration and the effects of the current economic crisis in the region, there is an urgency to deconstruct such ideologies. This article shows how Herzfeld’s (2002; 2005) approach to Balkan margin…
Aristophanes in Comic Books: Adaptation as Metabase
Translation studies researchers have for a long time critically engaged with the idea of translation being a mode of creative rewriting across media and cultural or temporal divides. Adaptation studies experts use a similar premise to study products, processes and reception of adaptations for specific locales. This article combines such perspectives in order to shed light on an under-researched area of comic adaptation: this is the metabase, or t…
Translation and Opposition
Translation and Opposition is an edited volume that brings together cultural and sociological perspectives by examining translation through the prism of linguistic/cultural hybridity and inter/intra-social agency. In a collection of diverse case studies, ranging from the translation of political texts to interpreting in concentration camps, the book explores issues of power struggle, ideology, censorship and identity construction. The contributor…
Translating “self” and “others”: Waves of protest under the Greek Junta
The years of the Greek Junta (1967–1974) were the most recent, tragic period of modern Greek history. They are mostly remembered for their shocking oppression and for the massive anti‐authoritarian student movement that arose in response. This essay presents and analyzes protest activities under the Greek Junta, grouping them into three broad “waves”: passive resistance and clandestine activity; elaborate cultural activity; and mass mobilization.…
Framing Brecht and the Greek Student Movement (1972-1973)
This paper examines the subversive function of an anthology of Bertolt Brecht’s political essays that was published in Greece at the time the student movement was emerging. The collection was launched in 1971, four years after the military coup in Greece. Drawing on the notion of frame from social movements theory, the paper focuses on the trajectory of the Greek student movement and the main frames that brought it forward as the most successful …
Towards a Model of Describing Humour Translation: A Case Study of the Greek Subtitled Versions of Airplane! and Naked Gun
Being rooted in a specific cultural and linguistic context, humour can pose significant problems to translation. This paper will discuss data collected from films in the light of a suggested framework based on script theory of humour initially proposed by Attardo and specifically adapted here for subtitling. The data include such categories as wordplay, where a more 'semiotic' approach is employed, comparisons, parody, disparagement and register …
Translating “self” and “others”: Waves of protest under the Greek Junta
The years of the Greek Junta (1967–1974) were the most recent, tragic period of modern Greek history. They are mostly remembered for their shocking oppression and for the massive anti‐authoritarian student movement that arose in response. This essay presents and analyzes protest activities under the Greek Junta, grouping them into three broad “waves”: passive resistance and clandestine activity; elaborate cultural activity; and mass mobilization.…
Towards a Model of Describing Humour Translation: A Case Study of the Greek Subtitled Versions of Airplane! and Naked Gun
Being rooted in a specific cultural and linguistic context, humour can pose significant problems to translation. This paper will discuss data collected from films in the light of a suggested framework based on script theory of humour initially proposed by Attardo and specifically adapted here for subtitling. The data include such categories as wordplay, where a more 'semiotic' approach is employed, comparisons, parody, disparagement and register …
Aristophanes in Comic Books: Adaptation as Metabase
Translation studies researchers have for a long time critically engaged with the idea of translation being a mode of creative rewriting across media and cultural or temporal divides. Adaptation studies experts use a similar premise to study products, processes and reception of adaptations for specific locales. This article combines such perspectives in order to shed light on an under-researched area of comic adaptation: this is the metabase, or t…
Towards a Model of Describing Humour Translation: A Case Study of the Greek Subtitled Versions of Airplane! and Naked Gun
Being rooted in a specific cultural and linguistic context, humour can pose significant problems to translation. This paper will discuss data collected from films in the light of a suggested framework based on script theory of humour initially proposed by Attardo and specifically adapted here for subtitling. The data include such categories as wordplay, where a more 'semiotic' approach is employed, comparisons, parody, disparagement and register …
Translating “self” and “others”: Waves of protest under the Greek Junta
The years of the Greek Junta (1967–1974) were the most recent, tragic period of modern Greek history. They are mostly remembered for their shocking oppression and for the massive anti‐authoritarian student movement that arose in response. This essay presents and analyzes protest activities under the Greek Junta, grouping them into three broad “waves”: passive resistance and clandestine activity; elaborate cultural activity; and mass mobilization.…
Framing Brecht and the Greek Student Movement (1972-1973)
This paper examines the subversive function of an anthology of Bertolt Brecht’s political essays that was published in Greece at the time the student movement was emerging. The collection was launched in 1971, four years after the military coup in Greece. Drawing on the notion of frame from social movements theory, the paper focuses on the trajectory of the Greek student movement and the main frames that brought it forward as the most successful …
Translation and Opposition
Translation and Opposition is an edited volume that brings together cultural and sociological perspectives by examining translation through the prism of linguistic/cultural hybridity and inter/intra-social agency. In a collection of diverse case studies, ranging from the translation of political texts to interpreting in concentration camps, the book explores issues of power struggle, ideology, censorship and identity construction. The contributor…
How Balkan Am I? Translation and Cultural Intimacy Through an Albanian-Greek Lens
Historiographers, anthropologists and cultural studies experts have shown that discussions of identity in or about the Balkans have been traditionally linked to a sense of ‘deficiency.’ Given the history of conflict, the drive towards greater European integration and the effects of the current economic crisis in the region, there is an urgency to deconstruct such ideologies. This article shows how Herzfeld’s (2002; 2005) approach to Balkan margin…
Aristophanes in Comic Books: Adaptation as Metabase
Translation studies researchers have for a long time critically engaged with the idea of translation being a mode of creative rewriting across media and cultural or temporal divides. Adaptation studies experts use a similar premise to study products, processes and reception of adaptations for specific locales. This article combines such perspectives in order to shed light on an under-researched area of comic adaptation: this is the metabase, or t…
Your translated memory or mine? Re-membering graphic novels in performed audio descriptions for The Cartoon Museum, London
This article offers a practical and theoretical exploration of a (highly) specialised type of comics re-mediation, namely, audio described (AD) comics for the Blind and Partially Sighted (BPS).Building on relevant work in comics studies and translation studies, it is argued that translation activity, broadly seen to include interlingual as well as intersemiotic translation (Jakobson 1959), helps rewrite original works.Translation is defined as a …
Audio described comics in the museum
Audio Description is typically used to describe the visual aspects of various cultural products in the creative industries: performed plays, films, sports matches, art gallery and museum items. Such descriptions offer alternative sensory input for blind or partially sighted audiences and have been the staple of research in Audiovisual Translation Studies. There are, however, rather few studies focusing on museum environments and none that examine…
The double-helix of creative writing and translation: Postgraduate translation students and tutors reflect on creativity, AI assistance and translation
Translation education typically emphasises transferrable skills needed for a career in the Language Services Industry. Writing, in conjunction with skills linked to creativity, has recently gained traction. This article builds upon previous work introducing a creative writing module for trainee translators. The objective here is to suggest a threshold concept or key idea with the potential to change how students perceive translation: writing prom…
Art (7 works) · Literature (5 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Comics (3 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (3 works)