Daisy Towers
- Email: mldit@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Authorship in Exile: The Translation and Renarration of Mercè Rodoreda
- Supervisors: Professor Angel Smith, Professor Duncan Wheeler, Dr Caroline Summers
Profile
I graduated from the University of Durham in 2019 with a BA in Modern Languages and Cultures, having studied French, Spanish and Catalan. I then began an MA in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Manchester, completing my thesis entitled Catalan Women in English Translation: The Renarration of Mercè Rodoreda’s La plaça del Diamant. I received the Translation and Interpreting Studies Best Scholar award in recognition of the best overall performance in the MA programme. I was also awarded the 2022 Fundació Mercè Rodoreda Prize.
After spending a year working at the University of Manchester, I joined the University of Leeds as a PhD candidate in 2021, generously funded by the AHRC via the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH).
Research interests
During my PhD I am continuing to study Mercè Rodoreda and her writing, focusing on how her authorship has been (re)framed, (re)narrated and (re)translated through the transfer of her fictional works from Catalan into English. A central concern within my research is the question of how a female perspective on the theme of the Spanish Civil War has been (re)narrated.
Publications
2024
Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés and Esther Monzó-Nebot, eds, Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power
Comparative Critical Studies 21(1):125-128 Feb 2024 (Review)
2023
Turning Up the Volume on Translation: Transforming Narratives in the Work of Mercè Rodoreda
FORUM 34 13 Oct 2023 (Journal article)
2022
MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities 17:54-62 30 Dec 2022 (Journal article)
Qualifications
- MA Translation and Interpreting Studies
- BA Modern Languages and Cultures
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for World Literatures