Faculty of Humanities and Education

Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature

Staff


Dr. Desrine Bogle

Dr. Desrine Bogle

Lecturer, French

Chartered Linguist (Translator)

Department: LLL

Bio

Dr Bogle is a translation studies scholar with over twenty years of teaching experience in translation, and French language and culture.

Qualifications

Degrees

  • Doctorat d’état,Translation Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
  • MSc, Applied Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
  • Master de recherche, Translation & Contrastive Analysis, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
  • Maîtrise, Translation & Neurolinguistics, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Martinique
  • BA, French with Spanish, The UWI, Mona Campus, Jamaica

 

Other Qualifications

  • Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), International House, London, UK
  • Certificate in University Teaching & Learning (CUTL), The UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Research Areas

  • Caribbean Translation and AI
  • Postcolonial Translation
  • Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Paremiology

Teaching Areas

  • Theory & Practice of French Translation
  • French Language
  • French for Tourism

 

Publications

Bogle, D. Translating the Indo-Caribbean in the AI Era: The Case of Trinidad Bhojpuri, Archipélies 19, no. 19, 2025.

Bogle, D. Psychological Trauma in the Francophone Caribbean: A State-of-the-Art Review. Caribbean Journal of Psychology, 17, Volume 1, 128-174, 2025

Bogle, D. The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, Peter Lang, 2020.

Additional Info

  • Member, Traduction et communication transculturelle(TRACT), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
  • Initiated and co-organized Translating Creolization Symposium (TCS) and Translating Creolization Symposium 2 (TCS 2)
  • Initiated and co-organized activities for Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie
  • Former Chief Examiner, CAPE French, Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)