Department: Tradución e lingüística

Centre: *Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Campus: Vigo

Area: Translation and Interpreting

Research group: Galician Observatory for Media Accessibility

Email: jemeirino@uvigo.es

Jesús graduated with a BA in Translation and Interpreting (Universidade de Vigo), was awarded an MA in Legal and Business Translation (Universitat d’Alacant) and holds a PhD in Communication (Universidade de Vigo). He also completed an MA in Teaching Compulsory Education, Post-compulsory Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Languages (Universidade de Vigo). He is currently a sessional lecturer in Translation in the Department of Translation and Linguistics at Universidade de Vigo. Prior to that, he held several teaching positions at that same institution and was a research assistant on several European projects. His research interests are metaphor and translation in Economics, audio-visual translation and easy reading. In addition to publishing several collective volumes on metaphor and translation in Economics, as well as children’s literature translation, he has served as a blind peer reviewer for the journals «Anuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (AILIJ)», «Entreculturas. Revista de Traducción y Comunicación Intercultural» and «Transfer. Revista electrónica sobre traducción e interculturalidad».