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Personal details
Nationality and mother tongue: French
Date of birth: 09/15/1981
Gender : male
Education
MASTER'S DEGREE (MASTER 2 - professional) in translation - (English and Spanish) passed with honors, university of Orléans - 2011
MASTER'S DEGREE (MASTER 2 - investigation) in sociology - passed with high honors, university of Montpellier - 2006
BAC (French equivalent to the Higher Leaving Certificate) “humanities” - 2001
Languages and areas of work
Translation/editing/proofreading from English and Spanish into French.
Main areas of specialization : economic & social sciences and their applications
Sociology, anthropology, ethnology, economics, history, politics, psychology, epistemology, pedagogy, NGOS, management, marketing, market research, investigations, human resources, advertising, pedagogy ...
Other areas:
Science (general), finance (general), philosophy, guides, tourism, journalism/corporate press, web sites, health/self-help, multimedia, correspondence ...
Computer-assisted translation
Trados Studio 2011 (training at the University of Orleans as part of the translation Master)
MemoQ 6.2 , Wordfast, OmegaT (self-taught learning)
Academic background
Some of the teaching units attended in the translation course:
Translation English and Spanish, theory, methodology, lexicography, terminology, editing/proofreading, correction, Computer Assisted Translation, project management, crafts of the publishing industry, sociology class taught in English.
Some of the teaching units attended in the sociology course:
Epistemology, theory, methodology: field and reasoning, statistics, organisational theory, sociology of education, of power and of the organisation of public powers in France, social movements, media and propaganda, sociology of elections, political sociology, modernity and tradition, violence and domination, social phenomenology, sociology and psychoanalysis, educational and scientific institutions, colonialisms and post-colonialisms, time, communication, ethnology: tradition and history, political anthropology: political organisation of non-western societies...
Further teaching units (Montpellier III):
Contemporary history: 19th century in France, history of political ideas: Constant, Tocqueville, Proudhon, Marx, Fourrier, Arendt, etc.
Master's work experience reports (translation):
- Master 1: 17/20
- Master 2: 20/20
Master's dissertations (sociology):
- Internal organization and social insertion of the cooperative firms in Argentina (18/20): Cooperative firms in Argentina from 2001 to 2005. From the economical need to the political necessity.
- Licence's dissertation (17/20): Logics of action of gamblers.
Other skills
Economics (factual and theoretical knowledge)
Politics (history and ideologies of right and left wings, anarchism)
Psychology and psychoanalysis (theories and concepts)
History (Antiquity and Middle Ages and especially 19 th century in France), political, economic, social and cultural current affairs (I keep myself informed daily)
Experience in literary translation
Les bulles de Bilbao, Luis Miguel Lus Arana / Jean-Michel Tobelem / Joan Ockman
Editions B2, Collection Actualités, Paris, 2014 [anglais]. ISBN : 978-2-36509-041-4
Le Pentagone, Alfred Goldberg
Editions B2, Collection Société, Paris, 2014 [English]. ISBN : 978-2-36509-042-1
Un camouflage New Bahaus, György Kepes et la militarisation de l'image, John R. Blakinger
Editions B2, Collection Design, Paris, 2014 [English]. ISBN : 978-2-36509-033-9
La condition transmoderne, Rosa Maria Rodriguez Magda
Editions l'Harmattan, Collection Quelle drôle d'époque !, Paris, 2014 [Spanish]. ISBN : 9782343034775
Pour un maniérisme critique, Trix & Robert Haussmann
Propos recueillis par Gabrielle Schaad, historienne de l'architecture et doctorante à l'ETH de Zurich.
Book produced in co-edition with the Fri Art center, in Fribourg (CH).
Éditions B2, Collection DESIGN, P |
