Marie-Christine Boucher

Dr. Marie-Christine Boucher is a researcher at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany. She holds a doctorate in General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (summa cum laude, 2023, Justus Liebig University Giessen) and academic degrees in German Studies from Université de Montréal (MA 2015, BA 2011) and Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (BA 2011).

• Research Focus: Literary multilingualism, transcultural literature, translation theory, data literacy, digital humanities, and computational literary studies.
• Key Publications: Monograph Translated Worlds: Cultural Translation Processes in Contemporary German Literature (forthcoming 2025), and 15+ peer-reviewed articles/posters on pseudotranslation, digital methodologies, and cultural translation.

Affiliations: Member of the German Society for General and Comparative Literature and Association DHd (Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries).
Current projects include the BiLinked Community of Practice for data literacy, synthetic dataset development in computational literary studies, and digital transformation of German literature curricula.