Biografía
Laura Mejías-Climent holds a PhD in Translation by the Universitat Jaume I and a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, with the award for the best academic record. She teaches at UJI (postdoctoral grant), where she worked on her PhD as a FPI (predoctoral) grantee, and also works as a researcher and member of the research group TRAMA. She has taught at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide and ISTRAD, as a lecturer for the Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Translation (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain) and the master programs in Specialized Translation (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo). Currently, she also teaches in the course Experto en Traducción y Localización de Videojuegos (ISTRAD) well as the Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Translation at the Universidad Europea de Valencia. Furthermore, she has taught in the USA thanks to a Fulbright scholarship.
She also holds a Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Translation (Universidad de Cádiz/ISTRAD), a Master’s Degree in Translation and New Technologies (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo/ISTRAD) and the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education and Languages (MAES) (Universidad de Sevilla). She has worked as translation project manager and professional translator, specialized in the field of audiovisual translation. Her lines of research focus on AVT, specifically, on translation for dubbing and video game localization.