Karl Schurster

Karl Schurster holds a PhD in Comparative History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and completed a research stay at the Freie Universität Berlin. He holds an MA in History from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco and a BA in History from the University of Pernambuco. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Porto, and the University of Vigo. He is a full professor in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and at the University of Pernambuco (UPE), as well as in the PhD Program in Translation and Paratranslation at the University of Vigo, and a researcher in the Translation & Paratranslation (TI4) group at the University of Vigo, supported by the María Zambrano International Talent Fellowship. His research lies at the intersection of History of the Present Time, Holocaust and contemporary genocide studies, and Translation Studies, with particular emphasis on paratranslation as a theoretical and methodological tool for analyzing discourse, images, paratexts, and cultural mediation. His main research interests include paratranslation and genocides, paratranslation and the Holocaust, paratranslation and artificial intelligence, the theory and methodology of paratranslation, as well as paratranslation, comics, and collective trauma. He coordinates research projects on memory, migration, exile, and human rights and actively participates in international networks dedicated to theory of history and memory studies, from a paratranslational perspective. He is a researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq