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María Josefa
Espinoza Saavedra
Profesora Asociada
Department: TRADUCCIÓN E INTERPRETACIÓN
PhD school: CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Area: Translation and Interpreting
Email: espinoza.saavedra@usal.es
Personal web: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5967-1920
Doctor by the Universidad de Salamanca with the thesis Towards a management model of humour in conference interpreting from english into spanish 2022. Supervised by Dr. Jesús Baigorri Jalón.
-Interpreting lecturer, Salamanca University. -Professional interpreter and PhD researcher. -Member of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) . -Ex-aequo awardee in 2024 as the best doctoral dissertation on fields related to humour by the Quevedo Institute for Humour Arts of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá (Madrid). - English language teacher at Spanish Official School of Languages (2017-2023). - Language skills. English C1, French B2, Dutch Basiskennis (middenniveau). Other languages: Italian and Catalan, speaking and reading skills. -Interpreter for the the Iqbal Masih Association against slavery (IMAAS), devoted to raise awareness on modern child slavery.