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Francesca Raffi holds an MA in translation and interpreting studies and a PhD in audiovisual translation. She is a Chartered Linguist (Education and Language Specialist) of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (UK) and since 2016, she is an adjunct lecturer in English language and translation at the University of Macerata (Italy). Her main research interests include audiovisual translation, mainly from a diachronic and historical perspective, and accessibility to media, arts, and culture. Since 2018, she is visiting lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool (UK) and since 2019, she is an Honorary Fellow in the Department. From 2018 to 2019, she was postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Macerata with a research project on reception studies and media accessibility, entitled "Media accessibility and its audience: creating a flexible system for feedback collection and reception studies". In 2017, she was visiting lecturer in the Department of Translation Studies, CPU Nitra, Slovakia. Since then, she has been collaborating with the Department in training and research activities in audiovisual translation and media accessibility (mainly audio description for the blind/visually impaired and accessibility projects for opera theatres).

List of publications: http://docenti.unimc.it/f.raffi#content=publications.