Rita Menezes (0517-F320-6C16)

Curriculum Vitae

Rita Menezes

Rita Menezes has a PhD in Translation Studies (2024), a MSc in Relationship Marketing (2016) and a BA in Translation and Interpreting (2001). She is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES). Rita was granted a FCT scholarship (2020 - 2022) for her PhD project entitled "Subtitling Revision: a Study of Professional Norms" (2024). Her research focuses on subtitling and on revision and quality control; her other research interests are cognition, creativity, ethics, translation technology and pivot translation. Together with Hanna Pieta, Susana Valdez and Stavroula Sokoli, she is guest-editor of a special issue of Perspectives on Pivot AVT. Rita has been active as a professional translator, transcreator, subtitler and reviser/quality controller since 2002, working with major stakeholders in the audiovisual translation industry; since 2015, she also acts as consultant. Rita has also been involved in translator's training since 2014, teaching Translation Theory, Technical and Specialized Translation, Audiovisual Translation, Multimodality and Revision. In 2025, she was shortlisted to the ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rita Menezes

Citation names

Menezes, Rita
Menezes Pinto, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0517-F320-6C16
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7918-6412

Email addresses

rita@ritamenezes.com.pt (Professional)
rita@ritamenezes.com.pt (Professional)
ritamenezes@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

http://ulices.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/grupos-de-investigacao/estudos-de-traducao-e-recepcao-gi-6/rita-menezes/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Other Humanities

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/09 - 2024/01 Concluded	Estudos de Tradução (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Um Estudo de Normas de Revisão de Legendagem" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Magna Cum Laude
2013/09 - 2016/05 Concluded	Marketing Relacional (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal "Marketing relacional assente no marketing interno: a influência das competências de coaching do líder nas respostas dos colaboradores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2002/09 - 2003/07 Concluded	Tradução (Pós-Graduação) Major in Inglês Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
1996/09 - 2001/07 Concluded	Tradução (Licenciatura) Major in Intérpretes Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal "Sem tese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09 - 2025/07	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Portugal

2020/02 - 2020/08	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014/09 - 2019/07	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/07 - Current	Investigadora	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

2015/10 - Current	Consultant	Trabalhador por conta própria, Portugal

2002/03 - Current	Freelance Translator & Reviser/Quality controller	Trabalhador por conta própria, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/02/02 - 2022/12/31	Video clips with embedded interactive activities about pivot translation of audiovisual texts Video clips with embedded interactive activities Universiteit Leiden Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands	Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen Ongoing
2020/10/01 - 2022/09/30	Revisão de Legendagem: Um Estudo de Normas Profissionais 2020.08087.BD 10.54499/2020.08087.BD PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2020 - 2021	IndirecTrans 3: Indirect translation and sustainable development IndirecTrans 3 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain	Concluded
2020/02 - 2020/08	MUST - Multilingual Student Translation Research Project MUST Researcher Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Menezes, Rita. "Paradójico o complementario. La revisión de subtítulos en el flujo de trabajo de traducción automática y posedición". In La traducción audiovisual a través de la traducción automática y la posedición, edited by Laura Mejías-Climent; Julio de los Reyes Lozano, 115-128. Granada, Spain: Editorial Comares, 2023. Published Menezes, Rita. "Multimodality and Subtitling Revision: A Tentative Analytical Framework of Subtitling Revision Interventions". In Recharting Territories. Intradisciplinarity in Translation Studies, edited by Gisele Dionísio Silva; Maura Radicioni, 201-220. Leuven, Netherlands: Leuven University Press, 2022. Published Ribeiro, Neuza; Menezes, Rita. "The Impact of Coaching Leadership on Employees' Positive Outcomes". In Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development, 18-55. IGI Global, 2019. Published • 10.4018/978-1-5225-9235-8.ch002
Conference poster	Menezes, Rita. "Professional practices in AVT revision: a Ph.D. project". Paper presented in Media4All9, 2021.
Journal article	Hanna Pieta; Susana Valdez; Rita Menezes; Stavroula Sokoli. "Indirect (pivot) audiovisual translation: a burning issue for research and training". Perspectives (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2374649. 10.1080/0907676X.2024.2374649 Susana Valdez; Hanna Pieta; Ester Torres-Simón; Rita Menezes. "Subtitlers' beliefs about pivot templates". Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1075/target.00019.val. 10.1075/target.00019.val Ester Torres-Simón; Susana Valdez; Hanna Pieta; Rita Menezes. "Is indirect translation a friend or a foe of sustainable development?". Translation Spaces (2023): https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.22025.tor. 10.1075/ts.22025.tor Hanna Pieta; Susana Valdez; Ester Torres-Simón; Rita Menezes. "Pivot Templators' Challenges and Training: Insights from a Survey Study with Subtitlers and Subtitler Trainers". Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura 28 2 (2023): 1–21-1–21. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v28n2a02. 10.17533/udea.ikala.v28n2a02 Menezes, Rita; Bárbara, Elisabete; Simões, Celeste. "Audiovisual Translation on Portuguese News Bulletins". Polissema, Revista de Letras do ISCAP (2010): Open access • Published • https://www.iscap.pt/~www_poli/polissema_2010.htm
Magazine article	Menezes, Rita. ""Este filme é para a minha idade?" Contributo para a História do Filme para Crianças", Avanca Cinema 2013 , 2013 Menezes, Rita. "Público infanto-juvenil e a leitura de imagens (em movimento) [Young viewers and image processing [in motion]]", Avanca Cinema 2011, 2011
Thesis / Dissertation	"Um estudo de normas de revisão de legendagem". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/63790. Menezes, Rita Margarida da Silva Lima de Oliveira. "Marketing relacional assente no marketing interno: a influência das competências de coaching do líder nas respostas dos colaboradores". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/1908.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11/15	A Study of Subtitling Revision Norms	Languages & The Media 2024: New Frontiers in Media Localization Languages & The Media (Budapeste, Hungary)
2024/10/26	Pós-Edição na Tradução Audiovisual	TranslateCoimbra Fall Edition ‘24: Especializar para se destacar! APTRAD (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/09/28	Intervenções de revisão de Legendagem: necessidade, impacto e motivação	Construir Pontes 2024 ATAV (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/06/25	Subtitling revisers as agents of change in audiovisual workflows	44th Conference APEAA 2024: Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/05/25	Reflexões sobre transcriação, inteligência artificial e criatividade	TranslatePorto 2024: O Futuro é Agora! APTRAD (Porto, Portugal)
2022/11/09	Prevail, not Perish. Scalability, Complexity, Automaticity and the ‘New Normal‘ for Subtitling Revisers	Languages & The Media. 14th International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media Languages & The Media (Berlim, Germany)
2022/06	On the reviser: communication and collaboration in subtitling projects	10th EST Congress: Advancing Translation Studies UiO & OsloMet (Oslo, Norway)
2021/09	Revisers, this is what we expect from you	1st International Audiovisual Translation Conference APTRAD
2019/02/14	Are Subtitling Revisers Aware of Multimodality?	New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies II CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) - UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10/12	Literacy, Translation and Film: a study of 8 to 10 year-old children reading subtitles in foreign movies	International Conference on Translation & Literacy CECC – Research Centre for Communication and Culture - UCP (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/09/05	Revision of Subtitling	CETRA Summer School 2018 - 30th RESEARCH SUMMER SCHOOL IN TRANSLATION STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN (Antuérpia, Belgium)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/06/25 - 2024/06/27	44th Conference APEAA 2024 Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts (2024/06/25 - 2024/06/27) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/05/26 - 2020/05/26	When it comes to revising subtitles - From practice to theory and back again. Meeting	Leiden Translation Talks Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
2019/12/11 - 2019/12/11	Legendagem: Âmbito, Complexidade, Mercado Meeting	VI TradTalks Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/04/15 - 2019/04/15	Revisão de Tradução para Legendagem Seminar	43 ETC - Estudos de Tradução à Conversa Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024 - Current	Women in Localization - Portugal Chapter	Founder
2019/07 - Current	ATAV - Associação Portuguesa de Tradutores de Audiovisuais	Associada
2019 - Current	IndirectTrans	Member
2017 - Current	ESIST - European Association for Studies in Screen Translation
2017 - Current	EST - European Society for Translation Studies

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020 - Current	Membro da comissão organizadora das JET5 dedicadas à Tradução Audiovisual (data a definir) Member	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2019/02 - 2019/02	ESFLC2019 European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference	Leiria, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/10/07 - 2022/10/07	Researching Subtitling via Pivot Languages	(Master)	Wuhan University China Centre for Type Culture Collection, China
2021/03 - 2021/03	Quality Control and Revision in Translation	FURV-Ca’ Foscari cultural and linguistic exchange program (Postgraduate Certificate)	Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Campus Catalunya, Spain

Distinctions

Award

2025	Shortlisted to the ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award European Association for Studies in Screen Translation, United Kingdom
2023	Prémio Carreira Alumni Politécnico de Leiria Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal

Title

2019	ATAV's Merit Committe member ATAV - Associação Portuguesa de Tradutores de Audiovisuais, Portugal

Other distinction

2021	Shortlisted to attend SISU International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture with funding from ULICES Shanghai International Studies University Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation, China Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal
2020	PhD scholarship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2018	Shortlisted to attend CETRA Summer School with funding from ULICES CETRA - Centre for Translation Studies of the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts, Belgium Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Anglisticos, Portugal