Staff Profile

Background

I have been Senior Lecturer in French and Translation Studies at Newcastle University since 2023 (and previously Lecturer since my appointment in 2016). Before coming to Newcastle, I worked as a Lecturer in French Studies at Nottingham Trent University and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Manchester where I also completed my doctorate in French Studies, funded by a French Graduate Scholarship.

Education

PhD in French Studies, University of Manchester.

MSc in Translation and Technology, Heriot Watt University.

BA Hons French and German (1st Class with Distinction in spoken French), University of Strathclyde.

Esteem Indicators

Keynote speaker at:

'Rethinking (Self)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts' postgraduate conference, University of Manchester, 7 June 2019.

Invited speaker at: 

Translation Studies seminar series, University of Edinburgh, 22 January 2020.

Translation Studies seminar, University College Cork, 16 September 2019.

Translation and Gender seminar, Cambridge Conversations in Translation Research Group, University of Cambridge, 8 May 2018. (Podcast available here)

Translating Feminism seminar, University of Glasgow, 16 January 2017.

Responsibilities

I am currently the Degree Programme Director (DPD) for the BA in Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting.

SML Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee member

Language and Gender Inclusivity project member

Sexual Violence Liaison Officer

My research interests lie at the intersections of gender and translation, focusing specifically on how contemporary women’s writing in French is being translated.

I am currently preparing a monograph based on my doctoral thesis. In this project, I explore the recent transgressive modality in post-millennial (2000-2010) French and Francophone women’s (auto)fictional writing and examine how this writing is translated into English. Specifically, I focus on how references to gender identity, female sexuality and female corporeality are being translated in relation to women’s lived experiences on topoi such as prostitution, matrophobia, sexual experience, anorexia and transgenderism.

Another area of research concerns French philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir and the dissemination of her thought into a multitude of global contexts via translation. I have recently co-organised an international conference with Prof. Julia Bullock, on the global translations of Le Deuxième Sexe and we are currently preparing an edited volume on the topic.

More broadly, my research interests include contemporary women’s writing in French, feminist translation theory, feminist theories, gender and sexuality studies, feminist philosophy, literary translation, and audiovisual translation. I would be interested in supervising postgraduate students in any of the above areas of expertise.

Postgraduate Supervision

Completed PhD Theses:

Xueman Cao (second supervisor: Yalta Ya-Yun Chen): 'Translating Sexually Explicit Language in Popular Fiction from English into Chinese: Exploring Patterns and Strategies.' Awarded 2022.

Dariush Robertson (first supervisor: Yalta Ya-Yun Chen): 'Chinese to English Video Game Linguists and Culture Specific Items in the Translation of a Wuxia RPG: a controlled partial-localisation case study.' Awarded 2024.

Olivia McCannon (co-supervisors: Sinead Morrissey and Tara Bergin) 'Living Translations of Poetry in the Anthropocene: From Louky Bersianik’s Maternative to The Lives of Z.' Awarded 2024.

Completed MLitt Theses:

Emily Armitage (co-supervisor Fernando Beleza): 'Translating the Taboo: Exploring the translation of transgressive themes in Novas Cartas Portuguesas (1972).' Awarded 2023.

My current research students:

Mary-Jane Holmes (co-supervisors: Sinead Morrissey and Tara Bergin) who is working on a creative practice PhD seeking to 'unsilence', via translation and creative practice, the female voice in a corpus of medieval Hispano-Arabic poetry called the Muwashshah.   

Daisy (Zijun) Feng (second supervisor: Ya-Yun Chen) who is working on a PhD project examining how lesbian representation is subtitled from English to Chinese in Orange is the New Black.

Tianyu Yu (first supervisor: Jun Qian) who is working on a PhD project exploring the reconstruction of gender and Chinese modernity in Lin Yutang's work. 

Yixuan Deng (second supervisor: Ya-Yun Chen) who is working on a PhD project examining the translation of female images in twentieth century Chinese women's writing.

Alex Li (second supervisor: Ya-Yun Chen) who is working on a PhD project exploring the subtitling of dialect humour from English to Chinese.

Undergraduate Teaching (23/24)

Module leader for:

TRI1001 - Interpreting Theory and Practice 1

FRE4015 - From Experimental to Explicit: Translating Women's Writing in French

Contributor to:

TRI4002 - Translation Theory and Practice 3 (subtitling)

FRE4083 - Level D (HE further advanced) Translation and Interpreting

Postgraduate Teaching (23/24)

Contributor to:

SML8023 - The Language Industry: Professions, Processes and Society

SML7001 - Translation and Interpreting Studies

SML8098 - Dissertation

• Articles

  • Henry-Tierney P. Simone de Beauvoir the Memorialist: The Running Threads Connecting Us. Paragraph 2023, 46(2), 259-274.
  • Henry-Tierney P. Translating Sexual Awakening in Marie Darrieussecq's Clèves. L’Esprit Créateur 2020, 60(3), 6-18.
  • Henry-Tierney P. Simone de Beauvoir, Brigitte Bardot, and Back-Translation: The Trajectory of Beauvoir's Discourse on the ‘Eternal Feminine’. Translation and Literature 2020, 29(3), 338-354.
  • Henry-Tierney P. Marie Claire’s Transgressive Trio: Erotic Alterity in Christine Angot, Claire Castillon, and Tatiana de Rosnay. L'Esprit Créateur 2019, 59(3), 73-85.
  • Henry-Tierney P. Transgressive Textualities: Translating References to Gender, Sexuality and Corporeality in Nelly Arcan’s Putain and Paradis, clef en main. Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies 2013, 3(1-2), 161-179.

• Authored Book

  • Henry-Tierney P. Translating Transgressive Texts: Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women's Writing in French. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.

• Book Chapters

  • Henry-Tierney P. Translating in Bad Faith? Articulations of Beauvoir's Existentialist Philosophy in the English Translations of Le Deuxième Sexe. In: Bullock J; Henry-Tierney P, ed. Translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: Transnational Framing, Interpretation and Impact. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, pp.171-183.
  • Bullock J, Henry-Tierney P. Introduction. In: Julia C. Bullock; Pauline Henry-Tierney, ed. Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing, Interpretation, and Impact. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, pp.1-13.
  • Bullock JC, Henry-Tierney P. Epilogue: Translating Key Concepts in Le Deuxième Sexe: A Crosslinguistic Discussion. In: Julia C. Bullock; Pauline Henry-Tierney, ed. Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing, Interpretation, and Impact. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, pp.220-245.
  • Henry-Tierney P. The Many Faces of Beauvoir: Paratranslated Materiality in Le Deuxième Sexe. In: Bracke, M; Bullock, J; Morris, P; Schulz, S, ed. Translating Feminism: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, Place and Agency. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp.43-65.
  • Henry-Tierney P. At the Confluence of Queer and Translation: Subversions, Fluidities, and Performances. In: von Flotow, L; Kamal, H, ed. Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender. London: Routledge, 2020, pp.255-265.
  • Henry-Tierney P. Parameters, Thresholds and Liminal Spaces: Designing a Course on Sex, Gender and Translation. In: Toto, P; de Marco, M, ed. Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, pp.27-44.
  • Henry-Tierney P. The Whore and her Mother: Exploring Matrophobia in Nelly Arcan's Putain. In: Loic Bourdeau, ed. Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America. Lincoln, NE, USA: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
  • Henry-Tierney P. The Translator and the Transgressive: Encountering Sexual Alterity in Catherine Millet’s La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M. In: Castro O; Ergun E, ed. Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2017, pp.222-234.

• Edited Book

  • Bullock J, Henry-Tierney P, ed. Translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: Transnational Framing, Interpretation and Impact. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.