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Isabel Parkinson is a Stipendiary Lecturer at Somerville College and a DPhil graduate in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on German literature translations, particularly gendered consciousness narratives. She holds scholarships from the Clarendon Fund and St Hugh's College, and has been recognized with the Edith McMorran Verse Translation Prize (2022) and the Women+ in German Studies 2024 Essay Prize. She teaches modules on German literature, translation, and cultural studies, and organizes outreach programs to promote language education in schools.
- Education: BA German & Philosophy (Worcester College, Oxford, 2019), MA Translation Studies (University of Sheffield, 2020)
Her research explores how gendered subjectivity is articulated and translated in works like Irmgard Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen and Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Ausser Sich. She emphasizes feminist translation practices and oral narrative techniques in German prose. Her teaching spans unseen translation, poetry, and postwar Austrian literature. She co-convened the Modern German Graduate Seminar and organized conferences on comparative literature and translation.
As a Graduate Ambassador for the MML Faculty, she designs outreach programs targeting schools in Northern England, focusing on tactile translation workshops and bilingual identity. She serves on the jury for New Books in German, assessing translation suitability for English audiences.
