Frances Welling

Frances Welling is an assistant researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University, where she is affiliated with the TRACE research group. She obtained her Master's diplomas in Literature, Culture and Society and in Translation studies at the University of Amsterdam after obtaining a Bachelor's diploma in Cultural Studies at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and a Bachelor's diploma in Slavic studies at the University of Amsterdam. Since September 2026 she is doing research on self-translation of poetry into Russian in multilingual contexts.

She also writes and translates (EN-NL, RU-NL, NL-EN) and is part of the editorial team of literary magazine DIG (De Internet Gids).  Currently she is studying translation RU-NL at the VertalersVakschool.