Aslı Takanay

After receiving her B.A. degree in Russian Language and Literature from Istanbul University in 2000, Aslı Takanay started working as a freelance translator. She received her M.A. degree in Translation Studies from Istanbul University in 2005, and her PhD degree in Translation Studies from Bogazici University in 2018. She worked as a full-time and part-time instructor in translation departments of various universities between 2003 and 2016. Since 2021, she has been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Translation Studies at Dogus University. She has also been working as a freelance since 2000 in the fields of audiovisual translation, literary translation, and translation of social science texts. Her research interests include audiovisual translation, literary translation, translation sociology, professionalization and organization in translation, community translation, and oral history. She is a member of The Literary Translators’ Society (ÇEVBİR) and Emergency and Disaster Interpreters (ARÇ).