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Laura Linares
Laura Linares is a lecturer at the University of Limerick. She completed her Ph.D. in translation studies at University College Cork in 2022, focusing on the translation of Galician narrative into English. She was awarded the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Publication Prize in 2022 and her forthcoming monograph Translation Landscapes: Contemporary Galician Fiction in English will be published with Legenda in 2023. Her main research interests include translation and ideology, cultural representation, translation in non-hegemonic cultures and the role of translation in the construction of identities in a global world, as well as the application of corpus-based methodologies to the study of texts and their translations. Laura has recently co-edited, with Olga Castro, a Special Issue on ‘Crossing Borders in Translation and Interpreting Studies’ for Galicia 21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies (2019). She worked as research assistant for the project ‘Stateless Cultures in Translation: The case of twenty-first century Basque, Catalan and Galician literatures in the UK’, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and is currently academic partner in the project ‘Changing the Translation Landscape from Multilingual Spain: Cultural Diplomacy and the UK Publishing Industry’ funded by the University of Warwick Arts and Humanities Impact Fund.
Contact: University of Limerick (Ollscoil Luimnigh), Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland.