Eliisa Pitkäsalo

Finland

 

Art is a line around your thoughts. – Gustav Klimt

 

Eliisa Pitkäsalo is a researcher of multilingual communication. Her research includes topics such as multimodality in translation and the visual narrative structure of comics. She currently leads the Graphic Justice research project at Tampere University, Finland, which examines how verbal contents of contracts can be transferred into comics. 

 

Eliisa received her PhD in Cultural Studies and she is Adjunct Professor in the field of Multilingual Translation Studies. Her recent research focuses on the interaction between word and image in comic contracts: she examines how legal documents can be translated into comics without losing their value as legally binding texts.