Valerie Henitiuk researches in the areas of World Literature, Translation Studies and Women’s Writing, with particular interests in such topics as East/West cultural exchange, gendered translation, translation vs. adaptation, the history and reception of translation, and liminality. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2005, writing a dissertation on liminal metaphors in women’s writing in English, French and Japanese. Prior to taking up this post at the UEA in March 2007, she was conducting postdoctoral research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University (USA).
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