After two years as lecturer in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh, Marion joined the School of Management and Languages in 2008 as lecturer in Translation Studies. She graduated with a first degree in Translation Studies from University of Heidelberg, Germany, and with a PhD in Corpus-based Translation Studies from Dublin City University, Ireland.

Membership of professional bodies/boards

Professional member of the Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (BDÜ)

Professional member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association (ITIA)

Member of the Society of Authors

Member of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)

Founding editor of New Voices in Translation Studies

• Corpus-based Translation Studies
• Corpus Linguistics
• Translational Stylistics
• Literary Translation

Marion’s doctoral thesis focused on the extent to which narrative communication is influenced by individual translators’ stylistic choices. For this project she compiled a German-English parallel corpus of literary texts and a reference corpus of literature translated into German and developed an analytical framework within which the different communicative layers of a literary narrative text could be addressed.

Marion is also interested in the text genre of autobiographies. Using corpus methodologies, she investigates how the autobiographical pact (Lejeune 1994), which refers to the identity between author, narrator and character, becomes more complex when the translator joins in the narrative communication, in other words, how the translator’s stylistic choices influence the characterization of the autobiographed figure and how this in turn influences the relationship between the autobiographed figure and the reader of the translation.

In her current research Marion investigates how the increasing use of automatic translation may be affecting literary translators. A current project on which she collaborates with the renowned literary translator Hans-Christian Oeser and Prof Dorothy Kenny (DCU) focuses on the literary translator himself, how he uses machine translation and how his textual and contextual voice might be influenced by machine translation use. Another project, in collaboration with Dr Xiaoman Wang, investigates how multi-agent AI systems can handle literary translation in terms of style.