Dr Maria Sanchez-Ortiz

Biography

I joined the University of Aberdeen as a Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies in 2016. I have been involved in translator and interpreter training for a long time. I also carry out freelance translation and interpreting work. I have taught translation & interpreting at a number of academic institutions in the UK since 1991 (University of Bradford; University of Leeds; University of Salford). I am the Programme Director of the MSc in Translation Studies, the MSc in Translation and Interpreting Studies and the MSc in Translation Studies (Distance Learning) in LLMVC (School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture). I designed the undergraduate programme in Modern Languages and Translation and Interpreting Studies with Overseas Placement in LLMVC, and coordinated it from 2018 - 2020. I am also the Director of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in LLMVC since March 2021.

I am a Fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy (2015 - ) 

Prizes and Awards

Awarded ´Funniest Lecturer´, University of Aberdeen (2023-2024)

Nominated for ´Best Undergraduate Lecturer´, University of Aberdeen (2023-2024) 

Nominated for 'The Most Inspiring Lecturer’, University of Aberdeen (2019-2020)

Awarded 'Best Taught Postgraduate Lecturer', University of Aberdeen (2018-2019)

Nominated for the award in Excellence in Teaching in the 'Teaching Supporting Widening Participation and Outreach Category', University of Aberdeen (2017-2018)

Research Overview

My research interests fall in the areas of Translation Studies (theory and practice); Literary Translation; Interpreting Studies (theory and practice); Audio-visual Translation; Translator and Interpreter Training, and The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Translation and Interpreting professions.

Some of my publications include:

(2024) ´Habitus Entrapment: The Constrictive, Deterministic Habitus of Peter The Venerable´ AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies, 8, 1, 5-14

(2018) ‘(Over) note-taking in consecutive interpreting’, International Journal of English Language & Translation Studies, 6, 3, 150-156 

(2017) 'The Pragmatics of Translator Training in the 21st Century', International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 5, 2, 81-8

(2015) 'The Use of Footnotes in Literary Translation', Forum, 13:1, 111-129

(2011) 'L'amour de l'impossible: advertising and translation', Forum, 9:2, 233-54

(2009) The problems of literary translation: a study of the theory and practice of translation from English into Spanish, Bern: Peter Lang

(2007) 'The stylistic value of dialect in literary texts: can it be kept in translation?’, Turjumân, 16:1, 55-66 

(2007) 'Translation and sociolinguistics: can language translate society?’, Babel, 53:2, 123-31

(2000) 'Translation as a(n) (im)possible task’, Babel, 45:4, 301-10

(1996) 'Literary dialectal texts and their problems of translation’, Livius, 8, 185-93

Collaborations

Researcher on the European Graduate Placement Scheme Project funded by the EU (Oct 2012-March 2015) – “an international project and consortium of four partner institutions from four different countries (Germany, Spain, Poland, England) to further cooperation between higher education institutions and enterprise, while stimulating mobility. Its overall outcome was a placement model to be embedded into translation courses” 

Member, since December 2013, of the PACTE Research Group (Experimental Research on Translation Competence Acquisition), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona