
Marie-Aude Tardivo, Ph.D
Subtitling, voice-over & dubbing translator-adapter
for the television and cinema
English & Ukrainian & Russian to French
A few things about me
Professional & Academic Background


Today – September 2017
TRANSLATOR-ADAPTER – AUTHOR
Adaptation of documentaries and films for the television, cinema, and the luxury industry.
Today – October 2024
LECTURER
Teaching in the Bachelor’s Degree in History and at Sciences Po,
ICES. Course title: Writing Dissent in Ukraine & Russia.
September 2017 – Sept 2016
MASTER’S IN AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION (Nice)
Training in audiovisual translation.
(Subtitling, dubbing, voice-over)
2016 - 2011
WEB WRITER
(Nice/Montréal)
Copywriting for online advertising.
Translation for various organisations.
2011 - 2007
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Brussels & London)
Creation and management of a foundation supporting education in Ukraine.
Humanitarian work & fundraising.
2007 - 2004
PROJECT OFFICER
(Lviv - Ukraine)
Assistant to the Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky (now Research Director at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris).
Welcoming diplomatic and academic delegations. Organising international conferences. Teaching.
2004
TEACHING
(Cannes)
Teaching English in a private secondary school & private tutoring.
2002
Ph.D. –Doctorate
(Keele/Oxford Univ.)
Dissertation on The Self in Relation to the Law in A. Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago and V. Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales,
under the supervision of Prof. Michael Nicholson (Oxford University) and Prof. Valentina Polukhina (Keele University).
Interviews with dissidents:
Vladimir Bukovsky, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Irina Ratushinskaya, Olga Sedakova.
Dissertation held at the British Library (London).
References
Brussels, Oxford,
Paris, Kyiv, Lviv
Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky (Paris) – Research Director
Prof. Michael Nicholson (Oxford) – Head of Department
H.E. Vsevolod Chentsov (Brussels) – Ukrainian Ambassador
H.E. Michel Czetwertynski (Brussels) – Ambassador
Working Software

EZ 7 - NINA DUBBING
SDL TRADOS 2022
Member


Ongoing education
NinaDubbing (2026)
SDL Trados (online) (2025)
Institute of Art & Olfaction (Los Angeles) (2024)
Osmothèque (Versailles, Paris region) (2024)
ISIPCA (Paris/Grasse) (2024)
5e Sens (Paris/Grasse) (2024)
Parfums Nicolas de Barry (Candes-Saint-Martin) (2024)