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Dr. ALEXANDRA ASSIS ROSA
Dr. Alexandra Assis Rosa is tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of English, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal. There she teaches several courses related to Translation Studies both at graduate and post-graduate level. She is currently vice-director of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies- ULICES, where she has lead Research Group 6 on Reception and Translation Studies, since 2007. She is also Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, since February 2016.
Her main areas of research are DTS and Applied Linguistics, norms in both literary and media translation. Her publications focus on the translation of forms of address and linguistic variation in fiction, on censorship in translation as well as on reader profiling. She has recently co-edited Voice in Retranslation. Special Issue of Target 27:1 (2015), and is editing East and West Encounters: Translation in Time. Special Issue of Journal of World Languages (due 2016), and Indirect Translation: Theoretical, Terminological and Methodological Issues. Special Issue of Translation Studies (due 2017). E-mail address: a.assis.rosa@campus.ul.pt
Dr. JAVIER FRANCO AIXELÁ
Dr. Javier Franco Aixelá is a senior lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Universidad de Alicante (Spain), where he teaches literary translation, documentation and theory of translation.
For twelve years, he was a professional translator and as such has published about 40 books in Spain.
He has coordinated the Translation Studies Ph.D. programme at the Universidad de Alicante, which was awarded with a "quality mention" by the Spanish Ministry of Education.
His research topics include the bibliography of translation, medical translation, and the manipulation of culture in translation. In the last decade, he has mainly focused his research on bibliographic and bibliometric matters, and he is the creator of BITRA (Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation), available online, and comprising over 65,000 records as of May 2016.
Dr. PALOMA MORAL DE CALATRAVA
Dr, Paloma Moral de Calatrava is Assistant Professor and Director of the Department of Nursing, University of Murcia.
She teaches History of Nursing, History of Women and New Pedagogical Trends in Health. Her research areas focus on Medieval Women’s Health, Female Medical Practice and Sexuality in the Middle Ages.
Some recent publications are: “A Spanish Midwife Appeals to the King: Luisa Rosado’s Challenge to Eighteenth-Century Male Medical Corporatism” (Journal of Early Modern Women, 2016), “El sexo como terapia: Las mujeres histéricas”, en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva: nuevas tendencias (Universidad El Bosque, 2015), “La «mujer cerrada»: La impotencia femenina en la Edad Media y el peritaje médico-legal de las parteras” (Dynamis, 2013;).