Maria CARRERAS GOICOECHEA
Keywords
Linguistics – history of Spanish language teaching; linguistic awareness of medieval travelers; bilingual Italian-Spanish and Italian-Catalan lexicography – translation studies – with a focus on the translation of ancient texts (Galdós, De Roberto) and linguistic variation (De Roberto, Cassar Scalia) – and Gender Studies – language and gender violence, women's (in)visibility, historical vocabulary of ecofeminism.
Maria Carreras i Goicoechea (Barcelona, Spain, 1965) graduated in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona (1988) and in Modern Literature from the University of Pisa (1994). She obtained the Grado de Licenciatura (University of Barcelona, 1993), for which she received the Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura (Faculty of Philology, University of Barcelona, 1995). She won a three-year scholarship to complete a postgraduate course in Linguistics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (1989-1991) and obtained a PhD from the University of Barcelona (1997) with the thesis "A Comparative Study of Grammatical Discussions in Spain and Italy: Similarities and Differences in the 16th Century" (pp. 311).
In January 2004, she joined the University of Bologna (SITLEC Department, Forlì) as a full-time Researcher (RU), and since 2013 as a DIT. She has been a Senior Researcher since January 1, 2007. She teaches translation at SSLiMIT, and since 2013 at SLLTI, at its Forlì campus (University of Bologna). Since November 2, 2014, she has been a researcher at the University of Catania. From November 2014 to June 2020, she coordinated the Spanish Department of the Special Language Teaching Structure of the same University at the Ragusa campus, where she taught Spanish language and translation in the Bachelor's Degree (L12) and Master's Degree (LM37) programs. At the same time, she taught History of the Spanish Language in the Master's Degree (LM38) at the DISUM Catania campus, where she moved permanently in November 2017.
Scientific Director of CIRSIL for the Catalan language area (2003-2016). Coordinator of the CIRSIL Italian bilingual lexicographical repertoire for the Catalan language area (2003-2007). Secretary, Treasurer, and Member of the Board of Directors of the AISC (Italian Association of Catalan Studies), 2006-2008, re-elected for the three-year term 2008-2011. November 2009: Founding member of the Rivista Italiana di Studi Catalani, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso (1st issue 2011) (ISSN 2279-8781, ANCE code E206402). Blind reader of the Rivista Intralinea. Online Translation Journal since 2009 ([ISSN 1827-000X]). From 2013 to July 2017, Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Zibaldone. Estudios italianos (ISSN: 2255-3576). Blind reviewer of the journal Íkala de Lenguaje y Cultura in 2009 (ISSN 0123-3432). Evaluator for the Agaur (Agencia de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) from 2010 to 2017. Since 2015, member of the GENUS Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. Blind reviewer for the Annals of the Verga Foundation in 2018. From 2017 to 2019, she participated in the Omovies Festival, involving students in the translation of short films in the InTranslation Project (University of Naples).