Charlotte Bosseaux

Professor Charlotte Bosseaux holds a chair in Audiovisual Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. 

Charlotte's research on voice spans different fields. She has worked in literary translation (e.g. How does it Feel: Point of View in Translation, 2007) and now mostly focuses on audiovisual material. Current research interests include performance and characterisation in films and TV series (e.g. Dubbing, Film and Performance: Uncanny Encounters, 2015) as well as documentaries with a focus on ethical translation in the context of trauma and Gender-Based Violence (e.g. A Voice of Their Own, Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation (2025, open access) and 'Surviving Translation: why we need feminist ethics in translation research and practice' (Feminist Translation Studies, 2025).

Charlotte was awarded an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (2022-2023) to work on her project on the ethical demands of translating Gender-Based Violence. Her practice-based research created a multilingual documentary Surviving Translation (Bosseaux and Lee, 2023, open access) underpinned by new research into the ethics of translation. She also produced a series of good practice guidelines (2023) in collaboration with audiovisual translation consultants and subtitlers of the documentary and her monograph A Voice of their Own, mentioned above. Other publications include work on Marilyn Monroe, Julianne Moore, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, multilingualism in TV series, music in translation, crime fiction in translation and chapters in Translation Studies handbooks.