Dr Isabel Santafe

I am a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies (E&S) and an ASPIRE Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

I originally joined the Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies Department in 2008 as a PhD candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant. In 2012 I completed my PhD thesis: Beyond Words: A Multimodal Approach to Translation Applied to Global Standardised Advertising Campaigns in International Women's Magazines.

I am the translation Coordinator, producer and lead the education strand of the CartasVivas project, directed by Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles. https://cartasvivas.org/

In December 2023 I was awarded a Global Exeter Innovation Fund to develop a partnership with the Complutense University Madrid through a Global Classrooms project in module MLS3037 Women and Feminism in 20th Century Spain.

Education Incubator Fellow 2020/21. I led the project 'Cartasvivas: A Multimodal Project-Based Learning Approach in Modern Languages'.

Biography:

I graduated from the University of Zaragoza in 2002 with a degree in Filología Inglesa (English Linguistics and Literature) and then completed a Teacher Training course (equivalent to PGCE). I hold an MA with Distinction in Applied Translation and a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Exeter.

Research supervision:

I am a Visiting Lecturer (tutor and dissertation supervisor/marker) for the MA Translation Studies (Distance Learning) at the University of Birmingham since 2017.

I have also carried out supervision work for the MA in Translation at Exeter and for the MA in Translating Popular Culture (Audiovisual Translation) at City University London.