Amparo Hurtado Albir

Prof. AMPARO HURTADO ALBIR
Amparo.Hurtado@uab.cat

Chair in Translation Studies at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Hurtado was awarded her PhD in Translation Studies by the École Supérieure d’Interprèts et Traducteurs, Université de Paris III, France. She has supervised various research projects at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has more than 80 publications on the theory and didactics of translation. These include: La notion de fidélité en traduction. París, Didier Érudition, 1990; Estudis sobre la Traducció (ed.), Universitat Jaume I, 1994; La enseñanza de la traducción (ed.), Universitat Jaume I, 1996; Enseñar a traducir, (dir.), Madrid, Edelsa, 1999; Traducción y Traductología, Madrid, Cátedra, 2001/2011 (5th Ed. rev.); Aprender a traducir del francés al español. Competencias y tareas para la iniciación a la traducción, Edelsa-Universitat Jaume I, 2014. She is the director of the series Aprender a traducir (Edelsa-Universitat Jaume I).

Dr. Hurtado is a French-Spanish translator.

Her research interests come within the following fields of research established by the Department of Translation and Interpreting: Translator and Interpreter Training; Cognitive Processes in Translating and Interpreting; Empirical Research Methodology in Translation and Interpreting Studies; Textuality and Translation; Professional and Employment-related Aspects of Translation and Interpreting.