[1] After working as a teacher and a freelance translator and interpreter, Remael spent most of her active career as a translation scholar at the University of Antwerp,[2] and was in 2018 rewarded with the Jan Ivarsson Award for invaluable services to the field of audiovisual translation.
Since her retirement, she is emeritus Professor of Translation Theory, Interpreting and Audiovisual Translation/Media Accessibility at the Department of Applied Linguistics/Translators and Interpreters of the University of Antwerp.
[3] Remael has published widely in the joint fields of audiovisual translation and media accessibility.
She has several publications on subtitling, audio description, and other topics within these fields.
[3] Even though Remael has published widely, she is probably best known to most translation students for her textbooks on subtitling, which she co-authored with Jorge Díaz Cintas.