Papers delivered at conferences
2025. 11th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) (with O Hellewell).“Less Translated Literatures and Soft Power: Slovenia and Spain as Guests of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair”. University of Leeds, UK, 30 June-3 July 2025.
2024. International Conference BELTRANS: Book Translation in Multilingual States (1945-2024). Intra-national translation grants in multilingual Spain: a story of two tales? Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels,28-29 November.
2024. International Conference BELTRANS: Book Translation in Multilingual States (1945-2024).“From the Local to the Global: Catalan and Galician Literatures in English Translation”, Brussels, 28-29 November.
2024. Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies (APTIS( Conference, “Teaching Feminist Translation”, University of Warwick, between 7-9 November 2024.
2024.11th Conference Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación. “Traducción y diplomacia cultural en Fráncfort 2022: ¿pluralidad lingüística como proyecto de Estado”. University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. 29-31 May.
2023. International Conference Transnational Feminism: Explorations, communications, challenges and horizons: “What do we mean by transnational in (transnational) feminist translation?” University of El Cairo, Egypt, 28-29 October.
2023. Annual Conference of WISPS (Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies): “Symbolic violence in translation flows: the case of Galician women writers in the Anglosphere” University of Warwick, 11-12 November.
2021. Sustainability and Translation. Annual International Conference: “Sustainability and Translation Training: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Neoliberal Economics” (with Jonathan Evans), Austrian Academy of the Sciences, 13-14 October.
2021. International Seminar: Bodies in Transit 2. “Rebel Intentions for Feminist Success? The Translation and Reception of Good Night for Rebel Girls (2016) in Argentina and Spain”, University of A Coruña, Spain, 19-21 May.
2021. Supplying Translation: a Digital Symposium: “Supply-driven funding and the ecosystem of translation agents: The case of 21st century Basque and Galician Fiction in English” (con Laura Linares). University of Nottingham, 26-27 April.
2020. 9th IATIS Regional Workshop Perspectivas latinoamericanas sobre traducción, feminismos y género: “Traducción y feminismos en clave interseccional y transnacional” (with Laura Spoturno). Universidad de La Plata, Argentina, 3-4 December.
2019. 2nd Annual Conference of the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies in the UK and Ireland (APTIS) (with J Evans).“Capitalist Realism and Translator Training: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Neoliberal Economics”. Newcastle University, England, 23-24 November.
2019. 9th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) (with L Linares).“Translation grants in stateless cultures: a comparative analysis of the Basque, Catalan and Galician literatures”. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 September.
2019. 64th Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (with L Linares).“The circuits of translation: Basque, Catalan and Galician fiction in the UK (2000-2015)”. Durham University, England, 8-10 April.
2019. 9th Conference Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación. “Crónica cun (des)encontro: feminismo transnacional e xeopolítica da tradución”. University of Alicante, Spain. 23-25 January.
2018 Conference: Translating Feminism, Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Text, Place and Agency. “Feminist Activism and Translation in a Transnational World”. Glasgow, Scotland, 13-15 June.
2017 Congrès Mondiale de Traductologie. Session: Approches féministes “Feminist Activism and Translation in a Transnational World”. Paris-Nanterre University, Paris, France, 10-14 April.
2017. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention 2017. Session: Translational Encounters in Galician Studies: Contemporary Literature across Transnational Borders. “Intranational Travels within Multilingual Spain: Made in Galiza in Catalan and Basque Translation”. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, 4-8 January.
2016. 1st Workshop of the Leverhulme Trust: International Network Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation. “Translating Feminism: global travels of three texts by the Galician author Rosalía de Castro”. University of Glasgow, Scotland, 4-5 November.
2016. 1st Valencia/Napoli Colloquium on Gender and Translation. “Teaching Equality as Difference across Borders: towards a Transperformative Pedagogy of Feminist Translation”. University of Valencia, Spain, 27-28 October.
2016. Conference: Spanish Cinema: Gender and Ageing Studies. “Ageing and Cinema in Feminist Studies”. Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 14-16 April.
2016. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention 2016. Session: Translation, Bilingualism, Glocalization. “Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Translation in the Twenty-First Century: The Galician Canon”. Austin, Texas, US, 7-10 January.
2015. Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations. “Self-translation across Borders: Author-Translator’s Role in Stateless Nations”. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 8-10 September.
2015. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2015. Session: (De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space. “Sex in the Media: A Discourse Analysis of Prostitution Ads in the Spanish Press”. Chicago, Illinois, US, 21-25 April.
2015. Tri-Annual Conference of the International Association for Galician Studies. “Políticas de autotradución na literatura galega actual: re-creación, apropiación, resistencia”. Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6-8 April.
2015. The Globalism of Literatures: The Voice of the Translator. “(Self-)Translation in the Iberian Peninsula: Adaptation and/or Cultural Appropriation”. University of California, Santa Barbara, California, US, 23-25 January.
2013. Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. “Feminist Linguistics and Translation”. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 25-27 March.
2013. 6th International Conference of the Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación (AIETI). “Doblemente subalternas: una aproximación a la traducción de autoras gallegas contemporáneas”. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 24 January.
2012. Narratives of Difference in the Global Marketplace. “Women Writers in Translation: Global Trends and Local Traits within the Galician Context”. The University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, 25 October.
2012. Translation in Non-State Nations. “Minority Literatures in (Self-)Translation and Beyond: Sleeping with the Enemy?”. Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK, 10 September.
2012. Tri-Annual Conference of the International Association for Galician Studies. “Xénero e nación nas traducións a inglés de Rosalía de Castro. Claves para unha (re)lectura feminista”. Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 12-14 September.
2011. Translation and Gender: A Gap Between Theory and Practice. “Feminist Linguistics and Translation: Or, on the Need for a Dialogue Between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface”. Università della Calabria, Italy, 11 November.
2011. Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. “Feminist Translatology and/in Galician Studies: Encounters Between Gender and National Identities through Translation”. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, 11-14 April.
2010. Women and Translation. “Feminist Perspectives on Galician Translation Studies: A Proposal for a Third Wave Feminist Translation”. Universidad de Málaga, Spain, 2-3 December.
2010. The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition. “Minority Languages in Contemporary Spain: The Authors’ Role in Promoting (or Not) Peripheral Literary Systems Through Translation”. Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK, 28 June-1 July.
2010. International Conference on Translation: Paratextual Elements in Translation. “Feminist Interventions in Literary Translation: From Paratexts to Proof-reading”. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 21-23 June.
2009. IX Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. “Feminist Methodologies in Galician Studies: State-of-the-art”. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 13-17 July.
2008. New and Old Questions of Women and Gender Research. “The Translation of Gender and the Gender of Translation: New Paradigms of Feminist Translation Studies”. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 14-16 May.
2008. Coming out of the Nation: Beyond the National in Contemporary Galician Production. “The Representation of Gender Identities in Translation: Ethics and Subversion in (Re)writing the Difference”. University of Liverpool and Bangor University, UK, 18-20 March.
2007. New Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies. “Feminist Rewriting: A New Turn in Translation Studies?”. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 18-20 October.
2007. I Foro Internacional “Translation/Interpreting and Social Compromise”. “Feminism and Translation: Social Commitment, Challenging Patriarchy”. Universidad de Granada, Spain, 28-30 April.
2007. Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. “Gender and Language: New Approaches Towards the Linguistic Normalization of Galician”. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2-4 April.
2006. Translation and Censorship: From the 18th Century to the Present Day. “Ideology and Censorship in Translations and Paratranslations of Le deuxième sexe, by Simone de Beauvoir”. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, 27-28 November.
2006. International Conference on Cultural and Historical Relations between Australia and Galicia: From Finisterrae to Terra Australis and Back. “Connecting Antipodes: Postcolonial and Feminist Arguments Proposing Linguistic and Social Reform”. Universidade da Coruña, Spain, 18-21 October.
2006. VIII Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. “Galician Literature Translated into English in the UK: Current Situation & Future Paths” (paper co-authored with Dr Craig Patterson). Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 12-15 September.
2005. X Forum for Iberian Studies: Charting Transfers: Remapping Iberia. “Galician Literature in the Anglophone World: The Subversive Power of Translation”. Trinity College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 3-4 June.
Conference organisation
2025. Co-organiser (with G Iturregui-Gallardo and G Romero) of the 6th European Colloquium on Gender and Translation. Theme: “Encounters between Intersectional Feminisms and Translation & Interpreting”. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 8-10 July 2025, see https://webs.uab.cat/european-colloquium-gender-translation/en/
2022. Event leader and organiser: “Riveting Writing from Multilingual Spain: Translators from Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Galician and Spanish”, hosted by the Instituto Cervantes London, London, UK, 23 April 2023, see here.
2021. Event leader and co-organiser with Laura Linares: “The translation of literatures in Basque, Catalan/Valencian and Galician. Internationalisation strategies in the British book market”, hosted by the Instituto Cervantes London, London, UK, 3-4 June 2021, see here.
2019. Event leader and co-organiser with Dolores Vilavedra and Laura Linares: “The internationalisation of Galician literature in English translation: New opportunities in a More Welcoming Irish/British Book Market”, Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17-19 June 2019, see here.
2019. Co-organiser with Helen Vassallo: “Translating Women: breaking borders and building bridges in the English-language book industry”, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, London, 31 October-1 November 2019, see here.
2018. Conference organiser: “Women/Gender/Feminism and Translation Studies”. Aston University, UK, 26 April 2018.
2017. Conference co-organiser with F Austermuehl and D Orrego-Carmona: “Translation and Interpreting in Political Settings”. Aston University, UK, 6 June 2017. See here.
2016. Conference organiser: “Translation and Interpreting in Multilingual Contexts”. Aston University, UK, 19 February 2016. See here.
2013. Conference co-organiser with S Mainer: “Self-Translation in the Iberian Peninsula”. University College Cork, Ireland, 20-21 September 2013, see here.
PANELS ORGANISED AT ANNUAL CONFERENCES
2025. 11th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies. Leeds, UK, 30 June-3 July. Co-organiser with Olivia Hellewell and Laura Linares. Panel: The Changing Faces of Literary Translation and/as Soft Power.
2019. 9th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies. Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 September 2019. Co-organiser with Emek Ergun. Panel: Expanding Conversations in Feminist and Queer Translation.
2017. Modern Languages Annual Convention, Philadelphia, US, 4-8 January 2017. Special session: Translational Encounters in Galician Studies: Contemporary Literature Across Transnational Borders.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
2018. 1st Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies of the UK and Ireland (APTIS) “Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Translation & Interpreting”. Aston University, UK, 23-24 November 2018.
2015. 11th Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Universidad Nacional San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6-8 April 2015.
2012. 10th Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies. Caerdydd Prysfigol/University of Cardiff, UK, 12-14 September 2012.