Areas of interest: Translation studies – Galician studies – Galician literature – Reception Studies – Literary Translation
Ana Luna Alonso is a Professor of Translation Studies at Universidade de Vigo, where she has taught since 1995. Alonso specializes in Galician literature, paying special attention to translation of Galician works and literary reception in the Galician context in works such as Traducción de una cultura emergente: La literatura gallega contemporánea en el exterior (co-author, 2012) and Literaturas extranjeras y desarrollo cultural: Hacia un cambio de paradigma en la traducción literaria gallega (Relaciones literarias en el ámbito Hispánico) (co-author, 2015).
Within the framework of Iberian Studies, Prof. Alonso has studied the construction of (multi)cultural identities and otherness in articles such as “Identidad cultural y traducción literaria” (2001) and “Imaxes e representacións do outro: a literatura galega cara ás linguas do Estado español” (2003), among other works. She also coordinates the project Bitraga (Biblioteca de tradución galega), an online catalogue that includes all of the literary translation from and into Galician from 1980 to the present day.
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