Contacte: mireia.vargas@uab.cat
Mireia Vargas Urpí is Serra Húnter associate professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies by the same university, with a thesis on public service interpreting with the Chinese community in Catalonia. She teaches Chinese at the Translation and Interpretation Degree at the UAB.
She has been a member of the MIRAS group since its inception and has numerous publications co-authored with fellow members of the group. She has been PI of the project “Young natural interpreters: child language brokering in education, social services and health” (RTI2018-098566-A-I00, MCIU/AEI/FEDER, EU) and together with Marta Arumí has coordinated the strategic association EYLBID: Empowering Young Language Brokers for Inclusion in Diversity, funded by the Erasmus Plus program (European Commission 2019-1-ES01-KA201-064417). She is also a member of the TXICC and Gelea2LT groups. As for her research interests, she has mostly explored public service interpreting for the Chinese community, child language brokering, and Chinese teaching and learning enhanced by digital tools.