Katinka Zeven
Lecturer
- Name
- Drs. K.L. Zeven
- Telephone
- 071 5271611
- k.zeven@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6896-9668
Katinka Zeven is a lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on the impact of translation choices on female and racial stereotypes in literary works.
Fields of interest
- translation studies
- stylistics
Selected publications
- Zeven, K., & Dorst, A. G. (2020). A beautiful little fool? Retranslating Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Perspectives, 29(5), 661–675. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2020.1778047
- Zeven, K. (2025). It’s Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin Review, Volume 11. Manchester University Press and The University of Manchester Library. https://doi.org/10.7227/JBR.11.9
- Zeven, K., & Dorst, A. G. (2025). The devil is in the detail: doing justice to James Baldwin’s message. Perspectives, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2025.2550333
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
- Zeven K.L. (14 January 2026), Brand new translation, same old story?: The perpetuation of female and racial stereotypes in (re)translation (Dissertatie. Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Liebregts P.T.M.G., Dorst A.G.
- Salmi L., Dorst A.G., Koponen M. & Zeven K.L. (2023), Do humans translate like machines?: Students' conceptualisations of human and machine translation. Nurminen M., Brenner J., Koponen M., Latomaa S., Mikhailov M., Schierl F., Ranasinghe T., Vanmassenhove E., Alvarez Vidal S., Aranberri N., Nunziatini M., Parra Escartín C., Forcada M., Popovic M., Scarton C. & Moniz H. (Eds.). Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation 12 June 2023 - 15 June 2023 295-304.
- Zeven K.L. & Dorst A.G. (2022), Characterizing Daisy Buchanan in retranslations of The Great Gatsby: translator behavior and reader reception. In: Cadera S.M. & Walsh A.S. (Eds.), Retranslation and reception: studies in a European context. Approaches to Translation Studies no. 49. Leiden: Brill. 324-345.
- Zeven K.L. & Dorst A.G. (2021), A beautiful little fool?: Retranslating Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, Perspectives 29(5): 661-675.