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Renata Kamenická, Ph.D., born January 5, 1970 in Brno, is an active Assistant Professor at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. She has held this position continuously since November 2005, following an earlier appointment from 1996-1999 (with maternity leave from 1999-2005). Her academic home is firmly established at Masaryk University where she contributes to both teaching and research missions.
Dr. Kamenická earned her Ph.D. in translation studies from Charles University in Prague (2007), an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Masaryk University (1996), and an Mgr. in teaching mathematics and physics from Masaryk University's Faculty of Science (1993). Her academic journey reflects a strong foundation in both linguistic studies and pedagogical training.
Her research centers on translation theory with particular focus on explicitation and implicitation phenomena in literary translation, translator style, and cultural conceptualizations across languages. She has developed significant expertise in contrastive English-Czech analysis, investigating how linguistic structures and cultural concepts transfer between these languages. Her work bridges theoretical translation studies with practical applications in translation pedagogy, examining how translation universals manifest in both professional and student work. Recent research extends into digital translation environments, exploring the implications of machine translation and post-editing in contemporary translation practice.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2014-2024) reveals a consistent trajectory from traditional literary translation studies toward more technologically engaged research. While maintaining her core interest in translator behavior and stylistic choices, she has increasingly addressed machine translation outputs, post-editing practices, and the cognitive dimensions of translation in digital environments. Her work demonstrates sophisticated methodology combining corpus analysis, contrastive linguistics, and cognitive approaches to examine both intralingual and interlingual translation phenomena.
Dr. Kamenická has served on editorial boards for Brno Studies in English (since 2008) and Philologica Pragensia (since 2008), and has provided peer reviews for the Ostrava Journal of English Philology. Her university activities include leading student subtitling workshops in collaboration with Cinema Mundi festival and supervising student translations for anthologies.
Her teaching portfolio is extensive, including a two-semester Translation Theory course, Text and Discourse Analysis for Master's students in Translation Studies, literary translation courses focusing on style, and specialized workshops on poetry translation, subtitling, and translation universals. She has also presented internationally, including at the University of Eastern Finland (2010) and provided training for translators at the European Commission's Translation Directorate-General in Luxembourg (2010, 2011).
