Keynote Speakers

Olga Castro is 'Beatriz Galindo' distinguished senior researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Reader in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick (on leave, 2024-2027). She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Feminist Translation Studies (Taylor & Francis) and has published extensively on the social and political role of translation in the construction of gender and national identities, with a particular focus on transnational feminism, multilingualism, self-translation and stateless cultures in Spain. She is currently Co-PI of the “Feminist Translation Network” project, funded by the AHRC, and member of the “Translation and Reception of Contemporary Feminisms in Catalonia” project, funded by the Solidarity Fund UAB. In the UK, she organised the summer school “Warwick School of Feminist Translation” in 2022 and was founder and Vice-President of the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting of Great Britain and Ireland. She is also corresponding member of the Royal Galician Academy.

Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is a discourse analyst and educational linguist with an interest in language ideologies and policies in secondary education contexts. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Eurac Research in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, where she is developing an Open Access website of teaching videos and transcripts from her fieldwork at two middle schools. Her research at these middle schools --focused on school rituals, classroom interaction, and language ideologies, is a "prequel" to her PhD research at three secondary schools in Umbria, where she studied the ways that students are socialized to participate in everyday school life. She discusses this research in her book, Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology, 2021). She welcomes correspondence at aleonepizzighella@eurac.edu.