Dr. Hilla Karas
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Dr. Hilla Karas completed all her academic degrees at Tel Aviv University: a Bachelor's degree with distinction in French and Linguistics (also a Rector’s List honoree), a Master’s degree with highest distinction in French Language and Literature, and a PhD in French Language and Literature. Her doctoral dissertation, titled The Status and Function of Translations from Old French into Modern French, was written under the supervision of Prof. Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Tel Aviv University) and Prof. Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven, Belgium).
During her doctoral studies, she was awarded the President’s and Rector’s Fellowships at Tel Aviv University. Thanks to a scholarship from the Belgian government, she spent a year studying at KU Leuven under the supervision of Prof. Lieven D’hulst. She was also a fellow at the Porter Institute’s Doctoral Forum at Tel Aviv University.
From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Karas received a personal research grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), together with Prof. Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, for a project titled Intralingual Translation: from Old French into Modern French. Through the Text and Beyond. In 2020, she was awarded another ISF grant for an international research workshop, again with Prof. Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, on Intralingual Translation: Language, Text and Beyond.
Dr. Karas is currently the sole Principal Investigator of a second ISF-funded research project (2024–2027), titled Translation and Migration in Crisis: FSU Immigrant-Interpreters in Israel as a Case Study, carried out in collaboration with research associate Dr. Tanya Voinova
Dr. Karas has translated works of philosophy and critical theory from French into Hebrew, including texts by Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Mauss, and others. Until 2012, she taught at Tel Aviv University, Beit Berl College, Lifshitz College, and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Between 2020 and 2023, she served as Chair of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
From 2019 to 2021, Dr. Karas co-led the interdisciplinary research group Cultural Perceptions of Emotions in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period with Prof. Tovi Bibring.
Since 2016, she has served as the secretary of ILASH, the Israeli Association for Applied Linguistics. She is also a member of the international editorial board of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice and a member of the editorial board of the Hebrew-language journal Heksherei Lashon.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Karas, Hilla 2024. “Sociological aspects of translation - current trends”, Israel Studies in Language and Society 18: 29-50.
Karas, Hilla 2022. "Objects of remembrance and renewal. Translated materiality in Queen of Dreams", Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:1, pp. 111-133. DOI:10.1075/tis.21030.kar
Karas, Hilla & Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot 2022. "Traduction et diachronie: Enjeux théoriques", Diachroniques 9, pp. 7-26.
Karas, Hilla & Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot 2021. “Intralingual Diachronic Translation and Transfer: The Case of Old French, Romance Studies, 39:4, pp. 189-207
Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot & Hilla Karas 2021. « Je est un autre : représentation de l’ancien français dans les traductions modernes », Linguarum Varietas X, pp. 123-135
Karas, Hilla 2020. "Illustrated Translations Longing for the Middle Ages, exemplified by modern French versions of Aucassin et Nicolette", Punctum 6:1, pp. 161-183.
Karas, Hilla 2020. "Arabic as a visual element in signage for Hebrew speakers: between the obvious and the provocative", Israel Studies in Language and Society 13(1): 196-213 [In Hebrew].
Karas, Hilla 2019. « Intelligibility and the Reception of Translation », Perspectives Studies in Translatology 28:1, pp. 24-42.
Karas, Hilla 2019. « False Equality in Election Advertisements. The Use of Multilingualism and Subtitles », Journal of Language and Politics 18:1, pp. 131-153.
Shyldkrot, Hava Bat-Zeev & Karas, Hilla 2018. « Peut-on concilier l’évolution linguistique avec la norme? », Flambeau 43(1), pp. 1-17.
Karas, Hilla 2018. « Pseudo-translation : Translation or new text creation », Ha’ivrit 64(3-4), pp. 95-105. [In Hebrew]
Karas, Hilla 2016. “Intralingual Intertemporal Translation as a Relevant Category in Translation Studies”, Target 28:3, pp. 445-466.
Karas, Hilla 2014. « Une rhétorique d’excès et d’absurde à traduire: l’exemple d'une chantefable du XIIIe siècle », Septet Traductologie 5.
Karas, Hilla 2008. “Sameness and Difference in Two Avatars of one Text: the Analysis of Re-editions”, Helkat Lashon 40, pp. 150-165 [In Hebrew]
Karas, Hilla 2011. “On the translator-Philologist”, Helkat Lashon 43, pp. 87-99 [In Hebrew]
Karas, Hilla 2007 « Le Statut de la traduction dans les éditions bilingues: de l’interprétation au commentaire », Palimpsestes 20, pp. 137-159.
Peer Reviewed chapters in collective volumes
Karas, Hilla 2022. “Cultural Hazard: The Tough Reception of the Modern Hebrew Ram Bible in Israel”, in: Dievenkorn, Sabine & Shaul Levin (eds.), [Re]Gained in Translation Vol. 1: Bibles, Theologies, and the Politics of Empowerment. Berlin: Frank & Timme, pp. 313-332.
Karas, Hilla 2022. “Cultural Translation and Translation Proper: Experiences of the Migrant in Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams”, in: Synchronie et diachronie : l’enjeu du sens, Sous la responsabilité d'Annie Bertin, Thierry Ponchon et Olivier Soutet, Paris : Champion, pp. 253-263.
Shyldkrot, Hava Bat-Zeev & Karas, Hilla 2021. « Un corpus de traduction intralinguale : considérations méthodologiques et théoriques », in : Bertin, Annie ; Françoise Gadet et Sabine Lehmann (eds.), Données variationnelles. DDRV, Presses de l'université de Savoie-Mont-Blanc, pp. 99-115.
Karas, Hilla 2016. « Les statuts paratextuels de la traduction », in: La Traduction, Pratiques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, eds. Joëlle Ducos et Joëlle Gardes Tamine, Paris: Champion, pp. 199-216.
Karas, Hilla 2016. “On the (non?) Reception of the Ram Bible”, Hebrew, a Living Language VII, pp. 367-386 [in Hebrew].
Corbellari, Alain & Karas, Hilla 2012. « Le passé médiéval : la traduction des œuvres composées en ancien français et dans des états anciens des langues européennes », in Histoire de la traduction en langue française, XIXe siècle, série éditée par Jean-Yves Masson et Yves Chevrel, pp. 230-250.
Karas, Hilla 2009. « La Curne de Sainte Palaye traducteur: « Pas si belle mais bien fidèle » », in Michel Wiedemann (éd.), Théories et pratiques de la traduction aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Tübingen: Narr Franke, Biblio 17, Vol. 182, pp. 85-98.
Book Reviews
2011 Child Peer Talk, Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Michal Hamo, Helkat Lashon 43, pp. 465-469 [In Hebrew]
2006 Saussure and His Interpreters, by Roy Harris. Lingvisticae Investigationes 29:2, pp. 313-318.
2008 La Postposition du sujet en français aux XVe et XVIe siècles. Analyse sémantico-pragmatique, par Sophie Prévost. Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:1, pp. 155–158.
Varia
Books Translated from French into Hebrew:
2016. Autisme. Nouveaux spectres, nouveaux marchés, Agnès Aflalo, Resling.
2014 La France et Israël 1947 – 1970. De la création de l’Etat d’Israël au départ des Vedettes de Cherbourg, Miriam Rosman.
2009 Étrangers à nous-mêmes, Julia Kristeva, Resling.
2008 Histoire de la sexualité, t. II, L’usage des plaisirs, Michel Foucault, Resling.
2007 Grain de la voix, interviews with Roland Barthes, Resling.
2006 Force de loi, by Jacques Derrida, Resling publishing house.
2006 La jeune née, Catherine Clément and Hélène Cixou, Resling.
2005 Essai sur le don, Marcel Mauss, Resling.
2004 Je, tu, nous Luce Irigaray, Resling.
2004 Truffaut/Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Bavel Publishing House.
2002 Articles about poetics by Eric Brogniet, Henri Meschonnic and Christian Hubin, translated for a project of the French Embassy in Israel.
2001 Didier Anzieu, Catherine Chabert, Bookworm Publishing House.
2001 Heinz Kohut, Agnès Oppenheimer, Bookworm.
In addition, several translations of articles on philosophy, art and society (by writers such as Jean Baudrillard, Jean Luc Nancy, Josette Feral).
תחומי עניין
Intralingual translation
Translation and national identity
Theory of translation
Intertemporal/Diachronic translation
Heterolingualism
Last Updated Date : 07/04/2025
