About

Olta Totoni is a PhD Researcher in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University, UK. She is currently the inventor of an innovative form of translation which is the alienese translation fully inspired by two British authors, Anthony Burgess, and George Orwell. She also studied British and American Studies and received a MSc in Intercultural Language and Communication. She has been a Guest Lecturer at the University of Tirana for ten years and taught and researched English as a Foreign Language.

 

She is a very active scholar and has tried to create a global profile. She has attended trainings, workshops, forums, seminars, courses and conferences in the UK, Italy, Western Balkans, USA. She has also experimented with different types of writing: poetry, short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, journal and foreign policy articles mainly related to British and American Studies published in the UK, Western Balkans, the US, France, Mexico, Canada.

 

Olta is the author of the book Diary of Time that contains a bilingual collection of articles published in newspapers and magazines. She has translated British literature and gives a good contribution in this field. She was a guest speaker in World Youth Forum ‘The Right to Dialogue’ 2014. She attended Academic English Conference 2021 (Cambridge) and Oxford World English Symposium 2022 (Oxford).

She is Political Academy Fellow 2012, Global Acumen Fellow 2014, Elite School of Politics Fellow 2014, IWPG Ambassador 2015, OYA OP Ambassador 2018.