Muriel Waterlot

Dr. Muriel Waterlot serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Dutch Language and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her research focuses on translation didactics, intercultural competence, and contrastive linguistic analysis between Polish, Dutch, and Flemish contexts.

• Supervised 18+ diploma theses on topics like Zeeuws dialect preservation, Dutch-English modal verbs, and Polish-Dutch phraseological units
• Contributed to translation theory through publications and presentations at international conferences including TransELTE and THERMOS
• Active in editorial and expert councils for academic journals and PhD programs

Her recent work explores terminological variants in Polish-Dutch-French contexts, multilingual translation approaches, and pedagogical models for foreign language teaching. She advocates for task-based translation methodologies and cross-cultural business communication frameworks.

• Key projects involve EU-funded initiatives like Language in Business – Business in Language (Erasmus+)
• Developed the Waterlot Model for tourism web-text translation
• Coordinated international translation education programs