[Gala-l] PhD bursary at the University of Portsmouth: Misogyny and homophobia in online amateur translation communities

[Alessia Tranchese]

 Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting. This is an exciting opportunity:

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three year PhD to commence in
October 2019.

Misogyny and homophobia in online amateur translation communities

This PhD offers a fantastic opportunity for a candidate interested in
investigating hate speech in online fan communities to undertake new
research on misogyny and homophobia in fansubbing and fan translation
forums, such as Subsfactory or YYETS, and YouTube translation communities
(e.g. Vietsub). While we anticipate that the successful applicant will
refine the research questions and choose case studies, it’s expected that
the project will provide an account of the language used in bullying or
hate speech in these communities and investigate the forms and practice of
mediation that have been used to minimise it.

The successful applicant will explore how linguistic discrimination is
carried over from the offline world into the online world, and how
aggressors construct their online identity, both individually and as part
of a group. Existing datasets collected from Reddit as part of the project
‘The Language of Cybersexism’ will provide opportunities for statistical
comparison with the linguistic features seen in fansubbing communities.

This is an exciting opportunity for interdisciplinary study that touches on
aspects of linguistics, fandom, translation, sociology, criminology and
gender studies. The successful applicant will benefit from the supervisors’
interdisciplinary experience of fan communities, translation, corpus
linguistics, gender and sexual discrimination, discourse analysis, law, as
well as their experience of dealing with research ethics.

Candidate specification
Candidates must be UK or EU residents and hold a good honours degree (2:1
or above) from a recognised higher education institution.
We require English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with
no component score below 6.0.

Additionally, we welcome applications from candidates who have native or
near-native competence in a language other than English (preferably French
or Italian) with a 2:1 (or equivalent) at bachelor’s degree in applied
linguistics, media studies, or translation studies (or related
disciplines). Ideally, candidates will have a master’s degree in a relevant
area, excellent IT skills, especially webscraping, as well as familiarity
with corpus-based discourse analysis.

Enquiries and application
Please contact Dr Jonathan Evans (jonathan.evans at port.ac.uk) to discuss
your interest before you apply, quoting both the project code and the
project title.

When you are ready to apply, you can use our online application form,
making sure you submit a personal statement, proof of your degrees and
grades, details of two referees, proof of your English language proficiency
and an up-to-date CV.

Please also submit a research proposal (up to 1000 words), detailing how
you would develop this project:
• What research questions would you pose?
• How would you design the project?
• What research methods would you use?
• How would you engage with/ build on existing research?

Our ‘How to Apply’ page offers further guidance on the PhD application
process.

If you want to be considered for this funded PhD opportunity you must quote
project code SLAL4360219 when applying.

More details here:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/misogyny-and-homophobia-in-online-amateur-translation-communities/?p104350

Best wishes,

Alessia

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Dr Alessia Tranchese
Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Area Studies
University of Portsmouth
p: +44 (0)23 9284 6044
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