Pilar Orero

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Maria Pilar Orero Clavero (born May 20, 1959 in Valencia ) is a Spanish translation scholar . She teaches at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and is in charge of the distance learning Masters in Audiovisual Translation ( Máster Europeo en Traducción Audiovisual , METAV). She holds a PhD in Translation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). Her research interests include nonsense literature , audiovisual translation, and media accessibility .

Life

Pilar Orero was born in Valencia in 1959. Before starting her career as a translation scholar in the field of audiovisual translation, Orero graduated from the University of Valencia as a primary school teacher in 1980 . From 1989 to 1992 she studied Hispanic and Lusitan Studies at the University of Manchester and completed her Masters in Translation Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1996 . Orero earned her Ph.D. from UMIST in 2003 with her work on translating nonsense literature.

Orero has since published several books and numerous articles. Today, in addition to her activities at the UAB, she is a member of numerous associations and research groups in the fields of audiovisual translation and accessibility, and also conducts research on media accessibility in several projects funded by the Spanish and Catalan governments. She also heads the TransMedia Catalonia research group.

Today Pilar Orero lives and works in Barcelona . She is married and has six children.

Memberships (selection)

  • TransMedia
  • Head of the TransMedia Catalonia research group
  • CAIAC research center
  • Digital Television for All (DTV4All)
  • Hybrid Broadcast Broadband For ALL (HBB4ALL)
  • JoSTrans
  • MonTI

Publications (selection)

  • Orero, Pilar (Ed.): Proceedings of III Congrés Internacional sobre Traducció. Acte. Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1998.
  • Orero, Pilar & Juan C. Sager (Eds.): The Translator's Dialogue. John Benjamin, Amsterdam 1999.
  • Orero, Pilar (Ed.): Topics in Audiovisual Translation. Benjamin's Translation Library 56. John Benjamin, Amsterdam 2004.
  • Díaz Cintas, Jorge ; Pilar Orero & Aline Remael (Eds.): Media for all. Subtitling for the Deaf, Audio description and Sign Language. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007.
  • Orero, Pilar: The Problem of Translating "jabberwocky": The Nonsense Literature of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear and their Spanish Translators. Mellen Press, New York 2007.
  • Matamala, Anna & Pilar Orero (eds.): Listening to Subtitles. Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Peter Lang, Bern 2009.
  • Franco, Eliana; Anna Matamala & Pilar Orero: Voice-over Translation: An overview. Peter Lang, Bern 2010.
  • Gil Bardaji, Anna; Pilar Orero & Sara Rovira-Esteva (Eds.): Translation Peripheries. Paratextual Elements in Translation. Peter Lang, Bern 2012.
  • Remael, Aline; Mary Carroll & Pilar Orero (Eds.): Media for All: Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility at the Crossroads. Rodopi, Amsterdam 2012.
  • Mangiron, Carme; Pilar Orero & Minako O'Hagan (Eds.): Videogame Localization and Accessibility: Fun for All. Peter Lang, Bern 2014.
  • Maszerowska, Anna; Anna Matamala & Pilar Orero (Eds.): Audio Description. New perspectives illustrated. John Benjamin, Amsterdam 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member information about Pilar Orero at TransMedia. Retrieved September 30, 2014 (Catalan).
  2. ^ Pilar Orero - The Translation of Nonsense Literature: Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. Retrieved September 30, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Overview of Pilar Orero's projects. Retrieved September 30, 2014 .
  4. ^ TransMedia Catalonia. Retrieved September 30, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Orero, Pilar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orero Clavero, Maria Pilar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish translation scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia