Executive Committee of Scholarly Associations
2017-2021. Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting in the UK and Ireland (APTIS). Co-founder, with JC Penet, and Vice-president (7 September 2017-26 November 2021).
2009-12. International Association of Galician Studies (AIEG). Vice-president (September 2012-April 2015) and Secretary (July 2009-September 2012).
Advisory Roles for Institutional Bodies
2021. Panel member and Assessor of new translation grants scheme to promote translations among different languages of Spain (Comisión de valoración de ayudas a la traducción de libros entre lenguas del Estado), Subdirección General del Libro, Spanish Ministry of Culture, 22 September 2021. Info here.
2017 Appointed corresponding member of the Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega), an institution founded in 1905 and aimed at studying and promoting the Galician culture. A Coruña, Spain. 17 June 2017. See here.
2016. Appointed member of the advisory committee of the Galicia-America Chair at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina. 8 March 2016.
Dissemination and Interviews
Castro, Olga. 2022. “En-Gender Conversations: Translating Feminism”. En-Gender Academia (podcast), 27 May 2022. (Available here).
Castro, Olga, 2021. Series “Feminist Translation Studies Research Forum”. Topic: “Feminist Activism and Translation in a Transnational World”. Conversation with Dr Anissa Daoudi, University of Birmingham, UK, streaming online. 27 March 2021. [in English]. Available here.
Castro, Olga. 2021. Series Càpsula de traducció: “Feminismo y traducción”: Interview by Caterina Riba, University of Vic, Catalonia, 23 March 2021. [in Spanish]
Castro, Olga. 2020. “Plume interviews Olga Castro”. Project Plume, online, 20 August 2020. (Available here).
Castro, Olga and Helen Vassallo. 2020. “The Necessity of Translating Women: Monica Manolachi Interviewing Helen Vasallo and Olga Castro”. Asymptote Journal, 12 February 2020. (Available here).
Castro, Olga and María Martín. 2020. “Contraargumentario feminista a la RAE: decálogo de incongruencias en su visión sobre el lenguaje inclusivo en la Constitución española.” Mujeres en Red, el periódico feminista, 8 March 2020. (Available here).
Castro, Olga and Ergun Ergun. 2018. “Author Interview: Q&A with Olga Castro and Emek Ergun, editors of Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives”, London School of Economics Review of Books, 12 December 2018. (Available here).
Castro, Olga. 2017. “Women writers’ work is getting lost in translation”. The Conversation, 21 June 2017. (Available here).
Castro, Olga. 2016. “Linguaxe non sexista… nin feminista: debates sobre xénero e lingua na era do feminismo transnacional”. Dossier: Feminismo(s). Grial, revista galega de cultura, 210. Tomo LIV, 2016. 28-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26528094. ISSN: 0017-4181.
Álvarez Pousa, Luis, Olga Castro, Iván Cuevas and Belén Puñal, 2012. A prostitución como escaparate mediático. Festa da Palabra Silenciada, 27, 98-106.
Castro, Olga, 2009. “Rebatiendo lo que otrOs dicen del lenguaje no sexista”. Mujeres en red, el periódico feminista, 16 April 2009. (Available here). Original published in Galician, journal Festa da Palabra Silenciada, 24 (special issue “O verbo patriarcal”).
Datasets and Policy Reports
Castro, Olga and Naylane Araujo Matos. 2025. Textos dos Estudos Feministas da Tradução traduzidos ao português brasileiro entre 1998 e 2024 [Data set]. In Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17924193
Castro, Olga and Laura Linares. 2019. “Propostas de Acción: A internacionalización da literatura galega en tradución ao inglés: novas oportunidades perante un mercado editorial británico en apertura”. Consello Galego da Cultura. (Available here).
Impact
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