Speakers

Joel Snyder is known internationally as one of the world’s first “audio describers”. In 2014, he published a book entitled The Visual Made Verbal – A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description. He is the President of Audio Description Associates, LLC and serves as the Founder/Senior Consultant of the Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind.

Cláudia Martins holds a PhD in Translation with a thesis on museum accessibility for the visually impaired. Since 2001, she has been teaching at the Department of Foreign Languages at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, where she conducts research on audiovisual translation, with a special focus on audio description.

Cinzia Spinzi is Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo. Her research activity and major publications lie in Language Mediation and Translation, Corpus Linguistics and Functional Grammar applied to the study of ideology and metaphors in specialised communication. She has also investigated figurative language in museum audio descriptions.

María Olalla Luque Colmenero is Professor of Translation and English Studies at the University of Granada. Her PhD and subsequent research focus on the use of metaphor as a tool for helping blind and partially sighted people access art museums, reception studies on new types of audio description, as well as training and applied research in this field.