Hegrenæs, Claudia Förster
Date of birth
Nationality
Title
Current position
E-mail
17 September 1977
German
MA
Ph.d scholar
[email protected]
Higher education
November 2012 –
August 2013
maternity leave
15 August 2012 -
Ph.D. candidate NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Department of
Professional and Intercultural Communication, Bergen, Norway
August 2010 –
December 2011
Master in English, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen,
Norway
August 2008 –
December 2009
Bachelor in English, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen,
Norway
August 2005 –
May 2006
Exchange student at Montana State University, Bozeman/Montana, U.S.A
October 2003 –
October 2005
American Studies, Department of British and American Studies,
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany
Career history
June 2012 – July 2012
Research assistant for Prof. Sandra L. Halverson, Department of Foreign
Languages, University of Bergen, Norway
Ongoing research
Cognitive effort in metaphor translation: Investigating translation competence development in students
Supervisors:
Professor Sandra L. Halverson, Bergen University College,
Bergen/Norway
Professor Sunniva Whittaker, NHH Norwegian School of Economics,
Bergen/Norway
Professor Torodd Kinn, University of Bergen/Norway
Publications
Hegrenæs, Claudia Förster. (2011). Time is Motion - A corpus based study on the quantitative use of cognitive
metaphors in translated and non-translated English. University of Bergen, Bergen/Norway.
Hegrenæs, Claudia Förster. (2014). Conceptual metaphors in translation – A corpus based study on
quantitative differences between translated and non-translated English. In Fiona MacArthur and Giulio Pagani
Andreas Musolff (Ed.), Metaphor and Intercultural Communication. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hegrenæs, Claudia Förster. (forthcoming) Some reflections on the status of empirical data in translation process
research. Proceedings of the 26th CETRA Research Summer School.
Courses at PhD level
Fall 2011
Introduction to statistics for linguists, University of Bergen/Norway
Fall 2012
TPR2012 – the Second international PhD course on Translation Process
Research, Copenhagen Business School, Danmark
Critical Discourse Analysis, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Language and Cognition, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim/ Norway
Spring 2013
International Terminology Summer School, Cologne University of Applied
Sciences, Institute for Information Management, Cologne/Germany
Fall 2013
Dubrovnik Fall Scholl in Linguistic Methods, Norwegian Graduate
Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology
MET 504-1 – Theory and Research Evaluation, NHH Norwegian School of
Economics, Bergen/Norway
Fall 2014
CETRA 2014 - 26th Research Summer School, Centre for Translation
Studies KU Leuven, Belgium
MET 513 – Academic Writing in a Research Setting, NHH Norwegian School
of Economics, Bergen/Norway
Fall 2015
Quantitative Methods for Communication Studies
Doctoral school of LIMAC, Copenhagen Business School/Danmark
Scientific presentations
11 June 2015
RaAM specialized seminar on Metaphors in/and/of Translation - Leiden University Centre
for Linguistics/Netherlands
Exploring translation competence development in students by measuring cognitive effort
in metaphor translation
15 January 2015 17 January 2015
Translation Process Research Workshop 4 (TPRW4) – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Poster presentation
Exploring translation competence development in students by measuring cognitive effort
in metaphor translation
21 June 2014
10th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor: Metaphor in
Communication, Science and Education
A corpus-based study on the quantitative distribution of conceptual metaphors in
translated and non-translated English
13 May 2014
ARTIS Inaugural Symposium: Insights into the performative and cognitive work of
translators – University of Manchester, UK
Exploring translation competence development in students by measuring cognitive effort
in metaphor translation
3 April 2014
American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA): Where Theory
and Practice meet – New York City, USA
A corpus-based study on the quantitative distribution of conceptual metaphors in
translated and non-translated English
Other
June 2016
member organizing and scientific committee of Kognitivt sommarseminar 2016
at University of Bergen, Norway
April 2016
member organizing committee LingPhil Supervisor Seminar 2016 in Bergen,
Norway
June 2015 –
June 2016
board member LingPhil - Norwegian Graduate
Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology
August 2014 –
July 2015
deputy board member Committee for Research, Research Communication and Research
Education, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
August 2014 –
July 2015
deputy board member, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
May 2014
external sensor MA thesis
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway
Johannessen, Heidi Kristine. 2014. HUMANITY IS A PACK OF CARDS A study on the
use and translation of creative metaphorical expressions in the language pair Norwegian
Bokmål and American English
August 2013 –
August 2015
board member Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication,
NHH Norwegian School of Economics