Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Waltraud Kolb
T: +43-1-4277-58009
Winter term 2025
340077 SE Planning of the Master’s Thesis
Summer term 2025
340196 SE Master’s Thesis: Writing Process
Winter term 2024
340077 SE Planning of the Master’s Thesis
Kolb W. Literary Post-editing: A study of processes and products. Routledge, 2027. (Studies in Literary Translation).
Kolb W. Literary post-editing of DeepL and ChatGPT drafts: Kate Chopin in German. In Translation Studies in the Digital Age. 2027
Kolb W. The automatic translation of literature: German versions of two short stories by Kate Chopin . In Beyond Terminology. 2026
Kolb W. Creativity in Literary Post-editing: Reworking a German DeepL Translation of a Text by Lima Barreto. In Walter K, Agnetto M, editors, Applying Artificial Intelligence in Translation and Interpreting : Possibilities, Processes and Phenomena. Routledge. 2025
Kolb W. ’Quite puzzling when I first read it’: Is reading for literary translation different from reading for post-editing? Palimpsestes. 2024;38(38):134-149. doi: 10.4000/12spc
Kadric M, (ed.), Kolb W, (ed.), Poellabauer S, (ed.). Translation als Gestaltung: Beiträge für Klaus Kaindl zur translatorischen Theorie und Praxis. 1 ed. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2024. 338 p.
Kolb W, Poellabauer S, Kadric M. "Von den Rändern ins Zentrum": Die Wissenschaftsreise von Klaus Kaindl. In Kadric M, Kolb W, Pöllabauer S, editors, Translation als Gestaltung: Beiträge für Klaus Kaindl zur translatorischen Theorie und Praxis. 1 ed. Tübungen: Narr Francke Attempto. 2024. p. 11-20
Kolb W. What’s new on the “unlikely frontier”? Recent research on AI for literary translation. Counterpoint. 2023 Dec;10:16-20.
Kolb W. Brazilian short prose in German: A study of literary post-editing. Revista Tradumàtica. 2023;21(21):63-86. doi: 10.5565/rev/tradumatica.347
Kolb W, Dressler W, Mattiello E. Human and machine translation of occasionalisms in literary texts: Johann Nestroy’s Der Talisman and its English translations. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. 2023;35(4):540-572. Epub 2023 Apr 3. doi: 10.1075/target.21147.kol
Kolb W. ’I am a bit surprised’: Literary translation and post-editing processes compared. In Rothwell A, Way A, Youdale R, editors, Computer-Assisted Literary Translation. New York: Routledge. 2023. p. 53-68
Kolb W, Miller T. La interacción entre el hombre y la máquina en la traducción de juegos de palabras. In Mejías-Climent L, de los Reyes Lozano J, editors, La traducción audiovisual a través de la traducción automática y la posedición: prácticas actuales y futuras. Granada: Editorial Comares. 2023. p. 37-60
Kolb W, Poellabauer S. Women as interpreters in colonial New Netherland: A microhistorical study of Sara Kierstede. In Zwischenberger C, Reithofer K, Rennert S, editors, Benjamins Translation Library: A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker. John Benjamins. 2023. p. 126-146 doi: 10.1075/btl.160.07kol
Kolb W, Miller T. Human–computer Interaction in Pun Translation. In Hadley JL, Taivalkoski-Shilov K, Teixeira CSC, Toral A, editors, Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation. London: Routledge. 2022. p. 66-88 doi: 10.4324/9781003094159-4
Kolb W. Welche Rolle können Maschinen in der Literaturübersetzung spielen? Universitas Mitteilungsblatt. 2022;1:19-23.
Kolb W. "Diese Übersetzung ist mir gelungen": Die Übersetzerin Erika Mitterer. Der literarische Zaunkönig. Die Zeitschrift der Erika Mitterer Gesellschaft. 2021;3:28-33.
Kolb W. “Hemingway’s priorities were just different”. Self-concepts of literary translators. In Kaindl K, Kolb W, Schlager D, editors, Literary Translator Studies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2021. p. 107-121 doi: 10.1075/btl.156.05kol
Kaindl K, (ed.), Kolb W, (ed.), Schlager D, (ed.). Literary Translator Studies. John Benjamins, 2021.
Kolb W. Less room for engagement: Researcher Waltraud Kolb on literature and machine translation. Counterpoint. 2020 Dec;4:26-27.
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