Dorothy Kenny

Prof. Dorothy Kenny is a full professor of Translation Studies at Dublin City University, affiliated with the School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies. She holds a BA in French and German from DCU, an MSc in Machine Translation, and a PhD in Language Engineering from the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on AI in literary translation, corpus linguistics, machine translation ethics, and translation pedagogy. She led the EU-funded MultiTraiNMT project (2019–2022), developing materials for MT education. She co-edits the journal Translation Spaces and is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (UK).

Education:

• BA in French and German, Dublin City University
• MSc in Machine Translation, University of Manchester
• PhD in Language Engineering, University of Manchester

Research Interests: Her work bridges theoretical and applied translation studies, emphasizing corpus-based methods, machine translation ethics, and the impact of AI on literary translation. Recent projects explore customization of MT for literary texts and ethical workflows in MT.

Awards & Recognition:

• 2020: Co-edited Fair MT: Towards Ethical, Sustainable Machine Translation
• 2017: Edited Human Issues in Translation Technology
• 2020: Honorary Fellowship from the Chartered Institute of Linguists

Grants & Projects:

• Principal Investigator of MultiTraiNMT (EU-funded, 2019–2022)
• Recipient of Ulysses Travel Grant (2018–2019) for collaboration with Université Grenoble-Alpes

Labs & Teams: She directs research at the Centre for Translation and Text Studies (CTTS), fostering interdisciplinary work on translation technology and corpus linguistics.