Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Fraller, MA
Elisabeth Fraller holds an M.A. in Translation Studies from the University of Vienna and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School in New York. She received her PhD in Romance Studies from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on hybridity in contemporary Italian documentary film. From 2003 to 2007, she was a Fulbright Scholar in the United States. She has held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design in New York, the University of Arts Linz, and the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. She currently teaches at the Centre for Translation Studies and the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna, as well as at the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Graz. At the Centre for Translation Studies, her work focuses on subtitling and translation for museums and the arts. In addition to her teaching, she works as a freelance subtitler for the Austrian Film Museum and Weltmuseum Wien, and as a translator for institutions including the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, the Leopold Museum, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum. She has extensive experience in biographical research in the field of Holocaust studies, including the editing and publication of diaries and letters by Jewish survivors, as well as the production of documentary films.
