Staff Profile

I joined Newcastle University's School of Modern Languages in January 2021. Before that I was a Marie Curie/Irish Research Council-funded research fellow at University College Cork with the project Reading Across Cultures: the Role of Translated Literature in Multicultural and Multilingual Communities. I have an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Birmingham where I also completed my PhD in 2017. My thesis explored the translation and reception of Catalan literature in English. 

I also work as a literary translator from Catalan and Spanish into English. 

My areas of research interest are:

Translation and Reception

Reading in translation

Social reading (book clubs).

Literary Translation

Catalan Studies

Undergraduate Teaching

Module leader for: 

TRI2002 Translation Theory and Practice 2

Contributor to:

TRI4002 TranslationTheory and Practice 4

SML1018 Introduction to Literature

SPA 4083 Spanish Level D Translation (S2)

Postgraduate Teaching

Contributor to:

SML8023 Profession, Processes and Society in T&I

SML8004 Literary Translation

SML8009 Research Methods in Translating and Interpreting