Staff Profile
Jessica Rainey
Associate Lecturer in Translation
- Email: jessica.rainey@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://raineytranslations.wordpress.com
I am a translator from French and Spanish, and an associate lecturer in translation at Newcastle and Durham universities. I also run workshops in schools for the Stephen Spender Trust and the Translation Exchange.
I specialise in creative translation, or transcreation, primarily working with marketing and literary texts.
Literary translations include contemporary Spanish plays for the Cervantes Theatre in London and poetry from Chile and El Salvador. Commercial (direct and agency) clients include Time Out Barcelona, Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Nina Ricci. Events include Protest Poets in Translation at the Southbank Centre and Translation as Collaboration at Newcastle University.
Spanish into English translation on the Professional Translation for European Languages MA:
SML8012: Translation Practice and Principles
SML8017: Translation Practice from Second Foreign Language
SML8013: Translation Workshop