Dr Marlie van Rooyen is a senior lecturer in Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the UFS. She serves as the Programme Director for the Bachelor of Arts with specialisation in Language Practice. Marlie holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Leuven in Belgium. The topic of her thesis was: "Tracing the translation of community radio news in South Africa: An actor-network approach". She teaches translation theory and practice on undergraduate and postgraduate level and is responsible for the supervision of postgraduate students in Translation Studies. Marlie is the newly elected vice-president of the Association of Translation Studies in Africa (ATSA). Her main research interests are journalism and translation, the sociology of translation, non-professional interpreting and translation, and translation/interpreting education and training. 

Van Rooyen, M. & Van Doorslaer, L. 2021. News translation as collaboration in multilingual community radio stations in South Africa. Language and Intercultural Communication, 21(3):411–425.

Van Rooyen, M. 2020. “Alternative journalism and translation”. In: Bielsa, E. Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media. Routledge.

Van Rooyen, M. 2019. “Tracing Convergence in the Translation of Community Radio News”. In: Davier, L. & Conway, K (eds.). Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Van Rooyen, M. 2018. “Investigating Multilingual Translation Flows in Community Radio News in South Africa”, Across Languages and Cultures: A Multidisciplinary Journal for Translation and Interpreting Studies, 19(2):259–278.

Van Rooyen, M. 2013. “Structure and Agent in News Translation: Applying Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Theory’, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 31(4):495–506.

Van Rooyen, M. 2011. “A Mediation Model for the Translation of Radio News Texts in a Multicultural Newsroom”, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 29(1):17–29.

Van, Rooyen, M. & Naudé JA, 2009. “A Model for the Translation of Sapa Texts for OFM News’, Communicatio, 35(2):251–275. 

Translation Studies

Journalistic Translation Research

Sociology of Translation

Non-professional interpreting and translation

Alternative and community journalism

Undergraduate:

HLAP3738 (Non-professional interpreting and translation)
HLAP3728 (Concepts of translation and interpreting)

Postgraduate:

LAPT6808 (Approaches to translation theory and practice)