Kelly Pasmatzi

Dr. Pasmatzi earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of English Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2006. She moved on to pursue her studies in Translation and Intercultural Studies at the CTIS, University of Manchester, where she completed her MA (2008) and her PhD (2014). She has been a member of the Europe Campus of the Univeristy of York, CITY College since 2015. She has also been the Research Director of the Humanities Department since 2018 and the Doctoral Programme Director of CITY College since 2022. She has presented and participated in a series of events (conferences, symposia, panels) in the UK and in Europe and has also acted as a peer reviewer for academic journals in the field of Translation Studies. She has published primarily on the sociology of translation and literary translation and is currently working on a book on German-Greek cultural and literary encounters. Dr. Pasmatzi has also been actively involved in research projects undertaken by the South-East European Research Centre with a strong focus on the South-East European region

• Introduction to Translation
• Methodology of Translation
• Concepts and Approaches in Translation (MA)
• Advanced English-Greek Translation (MA)
• Adaptation Across Cultures
• Introduction to Film Studies
• Introduction to Research Practice
• Adaptation Across Media

• Intercultural Communication
• Sociological Approaches to Translation
• Bourdieu in Translation
• Literary Translation
• Ideology of Translation

Participation in:

Ongoing Projects
R-Map: Mapping, Understanding, Assessing and Predicting the Effects of Remote Workign Arrangements in Urban and Rural Areas

Completed Projects
ALLVET – HE and VET alliance establishment according to the Bologna Principles implimentation via VET teachers’ capacity building.

WBC-RRI.NET Responsible Research and Innovation in the Western Balkans

Abou-Bakr F., Charlston, D., Davitti E., Kim H. K., Pasmatzi K., Solano A.M. (eds.) Special Issue “IPCITI 2010”, New Voices, Issue 8.

Pasmatzi K. 2012 ‘Translating the Greek Civil War: Alexandros Kotzias and the translator’s multiple habitus,’ New Voices Issue 8: 115-131.

Pasmatzi K. 2014 ‘Translatorial Hexis and Cultural Honour: Translating Captain Corelli’s Mandolin into Greek’ in Gisella Maria Vorderobermeier (ed.) Remapping Habitus in Translation Studies, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 73- 92.

Pasmatzi K. 2022. ‘Theorizing Translation as a Process of ‘Cultural Repatriation’: A Promising Merge of Narrative Theory and Bourdieu’s Theory of Cultural Transfer’. Target 34(1): 37-66. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Pasmatzi K. 2022. ‘Agency on the ‘Margins’ and Supra-Individual Habitus: Translator and cultural agents reframing translation through the Greek peritext of Nicholas Gage’s Eleni’ in Dominique Faria, Marta Pacheco Pinto and Joana Moura (eds.) Reframing Translators, Translators as Reframers. London: Routledge.
Pasmatzi K. 2022. (book review) Todorova, Marija and Lucia Ruiz Rosendo (eds.) Interpreting Conflict: A comparative framework, Palgrave Studies in Languages at War, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 320 pp., New Voices, Issue 27

Pasmatzi, K., 2025. ‘9 One Hundred Nazi Scalps: Bakhtinian Heteroglossia and Postmodern Identities in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and its Greek Subtitles in Eleonora Sasso (ed.) Minority Languages and Cultures in Audiovisual Translation. London: Routledge.