Contact: carmen.bestue@uab.cat
Carmen Bestué is an Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She holds a PhD in Translation Theory from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and completed a Diploma in Comparative Law at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas.
She teaches legal translation at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the UAB. Since 2024, she has been an accredited Full Professor by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya).
She has been a member of the MIRAS research group since 2010 and has led and participated in several competitive research projects. Her research focuses on legal translation and public service interpreting, subjects on which she has published numerous specialized articles in national and international journals and has supervised several doctoral theses.