LVIV SCHOOL OF TRANSLATION STUDIES

Abstract

The article provides an overview of research activity of the Lviv school of Translation Studies based at the Hryhoriy Kochur Department of Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics, which in 2023 will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The authors dwell upon the history of the department and its key trends of research, which back in the 1990s were delineated by its founder, Prof. Roksolana Zorivchak. The article goes on to elucidate three lines of developments, namely scholarly activity, projects and research initiatives and students’ research and activism. A special focus is on the scholarly and academic initiatives of the Department at the war period.

Keywords

• institutionalization of translation studies
• agency in translation
• translation historiography
• history of translation
• strategies of resistance
• translational period
• specialized translation