CEFRES Team

Katarína Bednárová – Research & CV

Research area 1: Displacement, ‘dépaysements’, and discrepancies: people, knowledge, and practices

Contact: katarina.bednarova[@]savba.sk

Katarína Bednárová works as senior researcher at the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) and as professor at the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. She has cooperated with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences CEFRES since September 2024 on her research on social studies and humanities translations, history of literary translations, and surveys of cultural transfers and literary reception in the 20th century.  Since 2022 she has lead the APVV-21-0198 research project Translation and aspects of reception of social science and humanities texts as cultural and literary transfer in the 20th century at the Institute of World Literature SAS. Her work falls into the scope of the 1st CEFRES research area, Displacement, ‘dépaysements’, and discrepancies: people, knowledge, and practices.

Honors and awards

2023 Knight of the Order of Academic Palms

2024 Ľuovít Štúr Honorary Plaque for contributions in the humanities and social sciences

Education

2016 Professor (inaugurated in the field of Philology, specialization in translation studies and literary translation history in Slovakia), Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava

2006 Docent (habilitated in the field of Literary theory and French literature history), Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava

1986–1990 CSc. [PhD.] studies (field Literary theory and French literature history), Institute of Literary Studies/Institute of World Literature SAS. Title of dissertation thesis: The individual and the social in French novels from 1970 to 1990.

1984 PhDr. (field Literary theory and French literature history), Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava

1972–1977 university studies of French and Russian language and literature in the field of Translation and interpreting, specialized in literary translation, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava

 

Academic and professional positions

2005–present Institute of World Literature, SAS, Bratislava: senior researcher, Department of translation studies (research in translation studies, the theory and history of literary translation, 20th century French literature)

2005–present Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava (assistant professor, Docent since 2006, professor since 2016; 20th century French literature, literary theory, translation studies, literary translation seminars)

2002–2005 University Marc Bloch (Strasbourg II), lecturer of Slovak language, literature, and culture

2001–2002 Faculty of Education, Comenius University Bratislava (assistant professor, French literature and literary studies)

1996–1999 University Marc Bloch (Strasbourg II), lecturer of Slovak language, literature, and culture

1991–1996 Institute of World Literature SAS (researcher and senior researcher, translation studies, theory and history of literary translation, 20th century French literature)

1977–1986 editor in the VEDA publishing house (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Teaching and teaching-related positions

Main responsible person for the university programs: French language and literature (Philology, study program: Translation and interpreting, BA and MA degrees), Romance studies (Philology, BA and MA degrees), Literary studies (PhD. degree), Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava

2013 visiting professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”

2012 visiting professor at Bordeaux Montaigne University

Research

2022–present project leader of the APVV-21-0198 project Translation and aspects of reception of social science and humanities texts as cultural and literary transfer in the 20th century, Institute of World Literature SAS, Bratislava

2009–2014 member of the research consortium of the Histoire de la traduction  en Europe médiane project (CEEM), INALCO Paris

1995–1996 project leader of the VEGA project Literary translation history in Slovakia, Institute of World Literature SAS, Bratislava

 

Research-related positions

2020–present member of the Scientific board at the Institute of World Literature SAS, Bratislava

2009–present member of the Editorial board of the World Literature Studies journal

2008–2012 member of the Scientific board, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia

2007–2010 chairwoman of the Scientific board at the Institute of World Literature SAS, Bratislava

2002 member of the Assembly of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

2001 member of the Scientific council of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Other professional activities

European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL)

2009–2014 coordinator of the Training and education CEATL working group

2009–2012 Secretary of the CEATL Executive committee

2005–2012 representative of the  Slovak Association of Literary Translators (SSPUL) at CEATL

Literary translation and publishing 

Translations of over twenty texts by French authors in book and periodical editions. In 1990–1998 founded and directed the publishing house CAUSA editio, which, apart from many other titles, published the Slovak translation of Maurice Olender’s Les langues du Paradis  (trans. E. Piovarcsyová, 1996).

Selected publications

 Monographs 

  • Bratislava, un kaléidoscope littéraire = Bratislava, literary kaleidoscope. Bratislava : Literárne informačné centrum, 2019.
  • Dejiny umeleckého prekladu na Slovensku I. : od sakrálneho k profánnemu = Histoire de la traduction littéraire en Slovaquie – du sacré vers le profane. Bratislava : Veda, Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, 2013.
  • Z rozhovorov alebo Edele a iné veci tohto sveta = From interviews or Edele and other things of this world. Bratislava : Causa editio, 1995 (interview with Slovak writer Alfonz Bednar (1914-1989)).

Monographic chapters and contributions to collective works

    • La traductologie en Slovaquie.  Écrire l’histoire de la traduction face à l’héritage de l’hétérolinguisme géo-temporel. In État des lieux de la traductologie dans le monde, F. Lautel-Ribstein et O. Dorlin (eds.), pp. 429-443.  Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2022.
    • La formation universitaire à la traduction littéraire serait-elle paradoxale?. In Présences du traducteur, F. Wuilmart et V. Duché (eds.),  pp. 39-54. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.
    • Výpovedná hodnota archívnych materiálov pre výskum dejín prekladu : poznámky na okraj dejín prekladu z francúzskej literatúry (1750 – 1918) = Informative value of archival material for the research of translation history: marginalia on the history of translation of French literature (1750 – 1918). In Archívny výskum (textov) v interdisciplinárnych súvislostiach, E. Gromová, N.  Rondziková et I. Tyšš (eds.), pp. 74-107.  Nitra : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta, 2021.
    • Ádám, Anikó – Babamova, Irina – Bednárová, Katarína – Bernard, Antonia – Carayol, Martin et coll. Histoire de la traduction littéraire en Europe médiane : des origines à 1989. Sous la direction de Antoine Chalvin, Jean-Léon Muller, Katre Talviste, Marie Vrinat-Nikolov. 433 pp. Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
    • Anton Vantuch – prekladateľ = A. A. – traducteur. In Anton Vantuch (1921-2001): romanista, literárny vedec, kultúrny historik a prekladateľ, J. Truhlářová (ed.), pp. 139-232.  Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 2018.
    • Présences françaises en Slovaquie du XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : enseignement, réception littétaire, traduction. In La France et l´Europe centrale : la construction des savoirs réciproques à travers l´enseignement, A. Marès et J. Hnilica (eds.), pp. s. 33-48. Pardubice : Univerzita Pardubice, 2017.
    • Auto-narration à deux visages (Annie Ernaux et Rudolf Sloboda). In Kultur im Transfer : Komparatistik in der Slowakei, pp.  97-117,  Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, 2016.
  • Kontexty slovenského umeleckého prekladu 20. storočia = Contexts of Slovak Literary Translation of the 20th Century = Contexts of Slovak Literary Translations of the 20 Century. In Slovník slovenských prekladateľov umeleckej literatúry 20. storočie. A – K. O. Kovačičová et M. Kusá (eds.), pp. 15-73, 74-92,  Bratislava : Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV : Veda vydavateľstvo SAV, 2015.
  • Ján Koška a jeho alternatívna interpretatívna koncepcia literárneho prekladu (teória “chyby”) = Ján Koška and his alternative interpretive concept of literary translation (the theory of „error“). In Myslenie o preklade na Slovensku, L. Vajdová (ed.), pp. 111-133. Bratislava: Kalligram, Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, 2014.
  • Le paysage européen construit ou déconstruit par la traduction littéraire et la mondialisation. In Paysages européens et mondialisation 2 – Eléments de géographie littéraire, Carnet de recherche Vers une géographie littéraire, 2012, september, s. 125-135. Disponible sur http://geographielitteraire.hypotheses.org/bibliotheque/etudes
  • Problème de la traduction des langues dites “minoritaires” : la littérature slovaque en France. In Translatologické reflexie : umelecký preklad z/do románskych jazykov, P. Šišmišová (ed.), pp. 13-26.  Bratislava : AnaPress, 2010.
  • Écriture migrante et traduction. In Francographies. Identité et altérité dans les espaces francophones européens, S. Bainbrigge, J. Charnley et C. Verdier (eds.), pp. 349-363. New York : Peter Lang, 2010.
  • Représentations du père dans l´imaginaire du fils et structures narratives dans le récit de vie Géricault par Andrée Chedid.  In Relations familiales dans les littérature française et francophone des XX et XXI siecles : La figure du pere, M. L. Clément et S. Van Wesemael (eds.),  pp. 245-256. Paris : L´Harmattan, 2008.
  • Histoire de la littérature française – seconde moitiés du XXe siècle. In Vantuch, Anton – Povchanič  – Bednárová, Katarína. Dejiny francúzskej literatúry=Histoire de la littérature française, pp. 251-385. Bratislava : Causa Editio, 1995.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Translation as a scholarly dialogue. In World Literature Studies : časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, 2024, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 58-73. (2015: 0.100 – SJR, Q4 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2016 – Current Contents, SCOPUS, Art & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents /Art & Humanities/, Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, CEEOL).
  • Translation – historicity – interpretative parallels. In Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of the European Context. Martin Djovčoš, Ivana Hostová, Mária Kusá, Emília Perez (eds.). First edition, pp. 24-33.  Bratislava : VEDA, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2023.
  • Bednárová, Katarína – TYŠŠ, Igor. Historiography and translation. In World Literature Studies : časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, 2021, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 3. (2020: 0.116 – SJR, Q2 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2021 – Current Contents).
  • Neúplné poznámky k teórii a praxi prekladu filozofickej literatúry (na Slovensku) = Remarks on the theory and practice of translation of philosophical literature (in Slovakia), pp. 40-73. In Preklad spoločenskovedných textov. Preklad vo vedách o človeku a dialóg kultúr. Mária Kusá, Natália Rondziková (eds.). Bratislava : Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV : VEDA, vydavateľstvo SAV, 2020.
  • Literárny kánon v prekladovom a kultúrnom priestore = The literary canon and translation in cultural space. In World Literature Studies : časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, 2019, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 15-41. (2018: 0.214 – SJR, Q1 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2019 – Current Contents, SCOPUS, Art & Humanities Citation Index, Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, CEEOL, EBSCO, European Reference Index for the Humanities, WOS).
  • Anton Popovič: between comparative literature and semiotics = Anton Popovič : medzi komparatívnou literatúrou a semiotikou. In World Literature Studies : časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, 2017, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 21-37. (2016: 0.191 – SJR, Q1 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2017 – Current Contents, SCOPUS, Art & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents /Art & Humanities/, Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, CEEOL, EBSCO, European Reference Index for the Humanities)
  • K niektorým otázkam vývinových trajektórií umeleckého prekladu na Slovensku (1945-1989) = On Some Aspects of Developmental Trajectories of Literary Translation in Slovakia (1945-1989). In World Literature Studies : časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry, 2016, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 3-23. (2015: 0.100 – SJR, Q4 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2016 – Current Contents, SCOPUS, Art & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents /Art & Humanities/, Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, CEEOL).
  • Dejiny umeleckého prekladu na Slovensku v geopolitickom a kultúrnom referenčnom rámci strednej Európy = The history of Slovak literary translation in the geopolitical and cultural referential frame of Central Europe. In Preklad a kultúra 5. – Nitra – Bratislava : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta : Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, 2015.
  • À la croisée des langues : le cas du slovaque en Europe centrale, pp. 91-115. In Critique et plurilinguisme, I. Poulin (ed.). Paris : SFLGC Université de Paris, 2013,

Book translations (from French to Slovak) published under the following names: Katarína Bednárová, Katarína Bednárová-Kenížová, Katarína Kenížová

  • CÉLINE: Voyage au bout de la nuit: Cesta do hlbín noci.  Bratislava:  Agora, 2009.
  • BECKETT, Samuel: Malone meurt: Malone umiera. Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 2004.
  • KADARÉ, Ismail: Spiritus: Spiritus. Bratislava: Slovart, 2002.
  • VIAN, Boris: Le ratichon baigneur: Dušpastier v bazéne (Výber poviedok). Bratislava: Petrus, 2002.
  • BECKETT, Samuel: Premier amour: Prvá láska a iné prózy. Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 2001. Prix de traduction littéraire décerné par le Fond littéraire slovaque
  • ROCHERFORT, Christiane: Les petits enfants du siècle: Deti nášho storočia. Bratislava: Smena, 1999.
  • TOURNIER, Michel: Le Roi des aulnes : Kráľ tmy. Bratislava: Causa Editio, 1997. Prix de traduction littéraire décerné par le Fond littéraire slovaque
  • BARILLÉ, Elisabeth: Anaïs Nin:  Anais Ninová s maskou a bez nej. Bratislava: Ikar, 1994.
  • ERNAUX, Annie: La Place, Une femme : Miesto medzi ľuďmi. Žena. Bratislava: Causa Editio, 1994.
  • CHEDID, Andrée: Géricault : Géricault. Bratislava: Causa Editio, 1994.
  • SCHWARZ-BART, André: Le dernier des Justes: Posledný Spravodlivý. Bratislava: Causa Editio, 1993.
  • ARRABAL, Fernando: El Greco. Bratislava: Q 111 & Flohic editions, 1992.
  • VIAN, Boris: Automne à Pékin:  Pena dní. Jeseň v Pekingu. Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1990.  Bratislava: Sme, 2005.
  • CROMMELYNCK, F.: Le chaud et le froid :Vášeň ako ľad. Trnava: Divadlo pre deti a mládež, 1988.
  • TIBERGHIEN, A. S.: Mon coeur s’appelle Amazonie: Moje srdce patrí Amazónii. Bratislava: Obzor, 1988.
  • DELBÉE, Anne: Une femme, Camille Claudel: Osud jednej ženy. Bratislava: Smena, 1988.