Jelena Vranjes studied Germanic Philology at KU Leuven (2008-2012) and was granted a PhD in Linguistics at the same University in 2018. She worked as a researcher at KU Leuven from 2012 until 2018, as a guest lecturer at KU Leuven from 2018 until 2019 and as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University from 2019 until 2023. She is now assistant professor at the German Section of the Department for Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University.
Her research interests include (dialogue) interpreting, conversation analysis, pragmatics of human communication, gaze and gesture in interaction, the impact of context and technology on the perception and use of embodied resources in communication and CALL. She uses advanced empirical methods, such as eye-tracking, in order to gain a better understanding of the multimodal dynamics of human interaction. She teaches courses on interpreting, writing and translation in German.
Since 2023 she is Associate Editor of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice.
