Pilar Orero

Pilar Orero holds an MA in Translation by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, and a PhD in Translation by UMIST, UK.

She lectures at UAB where she also coordinates the Online Master in Audiovisual Translation (http://www.fti.uab.es/onptav/). She is the co-editor of The Translator's Dialogue (1997) and editor of Topics in Audiovisual Translation (2004) both published by John Benjamins. She is co-writer of a forthcoming book on Voice-over. In the field of Media Accessibility she is co-editor of Media for All: Subtitling for the Deaf, Auidio Description and Sign Language, published in Amsterdam by Rodopi. She is the guest editor of the special issue of TRANS 11 on Media Accessibility in Spain. She is the leader of two university networks (CEPACC and RIID-LLSS) which group 24 Spanish universities devoted to media accessibility research and quality training. She is a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Specialised Translation http://www.jostrans.org, and Monographs in Translation and Interpreting http://www.ua.es/en/dpto/trad.int/publicaciones/index.html

Her research interests are Nonsense Literature, Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility. She has numerous research projects on media accessibility funded by the Spanish and Catalan Governments. She belongs to the international research group TransMedia http://www.transmediaresearchgroup.com.