Maialen MARIN-LACARTA (Dr.)

Dr. Maialen Marin-Lacarta

Tutor, Translation Research Summer School (TRSS)

Maialen Marin-Lacarta is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prior to joining UAB, she was Senior Researcher at the Open University of Catalunya, where she was Principal Investigator of the DigiTrans project. Between 2014 and 2020, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she received the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance as Young Researcher in 2019. She is also the awardee of the Jokin Zaitegi Basque National Award for her translation of Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan’s work into Basque (with Aiora Jaka), and the recipient of two General Research Fund grants by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (as Principal Investigator) and four Spanish government-funded grants (one as PI and three as Co-Investigator). Marin-Lacarta has published her research in Basque, French, Spanish, Chinese and English (in journals such as The Translator, Translation Studies, Perspectives and Meta). She has guest edited a special issue on Ethnographic Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies (with Chuan Yu) for The Translator and is the co-editor of 1611: A Journal of Translation History.