Dr. Marta Ortega Sáez has been a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies at the University of Barcelona since 2021. She has been teaching literature in the English Studies degree programme since 2008 and is involved in the CRIC (Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities) and MUFPS (Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching) Master’s programs. Her research focuses on Translation and Reception Studies, mainly from a gender perspective. She has studied the reception and censorship in Spain during the Franco regime of authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Rosamond Lehmann, Vita Sackville West, Radclyffe Hall, George Eliot, Margaret Mitchell, and the Brontë sisters. She is also an expert on the prolific post-war translator Juan G. de Luaces. She has presented her research at national and international conferences, seminars, and symposia. She has published book chapters with prestigious publishers such as Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Bloomsbury Academic, De Gruyter, and Peter Lang, as well as scientific articles in high-impact journals such as Arbor, Sendebar, Atlantis, Mutatis Mutandis, Hermeneus, and Brontë Studies. She recently co-edited the volume Mujeres silenciadas. Traducciones bajo la dictadura franquista (Dykinson, 2024).

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