Diversifying Modern Foreign Language and Translation Education

Authors

Mazal Oaknín, University College London; Marga, University College London; Victoria Showunmi, University College London; Ramona Gonczol, University College London; Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London; Jeff Bowersox, University College London; Alejandro Bolaños Garcia-Escribano, University College London; Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro, University College London; Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter, University College London; Madeline Young-Touré, University of Exeter; Corine Tachtiris, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Tasha Austin, University of Buffalo; Haydn Kirnon, University College London; Soledad Díaz Alarcón, University of Cordoba
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21071/000103

Keywords:

Translation and language teaching, Diversity and inclusion, Critical pedagogy, Intersectionality, Higher education

Synopsis

Diversifying Modern Foreign Languages ​​and Translation brings together the contributions from the 8th e-Expert Seminar Series, an international forum dedicated to rethinking language teaching and translation training from a critical, inclusive, and intersectional perspective. The volume gathers specialists from various European and North American universities who address issues such as race, identity, heritage languages, educational inequalities, decolonial pedagogies, reverse mentoring, and feminist theories applied to the translation classroom. Through case studies, teaching experiences, and theoretical reflections, the work explores the role of translation and languages ​​as spaces of power, resistance, and social transformation. This book offers a solid and current contribution to Translation Studies and Language Didactics in the context of an increasingly diverse and global higher education system.

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Author Biographies

Marga, University College London

Marga Navarrete is an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Translation Studies and a Language Coordinator at University College London. She teaches language and translation at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her publications focus on two main areas (1) the impact of audiovisual translation (AVT) and accessibility practice on language learners’ competence; and (2) teacher training, focusing on the integration of equality, diversity and inclusion in the language curriculum whilst fostering students' wellbeing. She works on editorial boards for Hikma and Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E. journals. She has taken part in many AVT research studies on language learning, where she has designed AVT resources and disseminated lessons learnt.  

Soledad Díaz Alarcón, University of Cordoba

Soledad Díaz-Alarcón is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Cór-doba (Spain). Her research focuses on literary translation (French–Spanish), particularly postcolo-nial Franco-Maghrebi literature, children’s and young adult literature, and French detective fiction. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Hikma: Journal of Translation and Co-Director of the series Nuevos Horizontes Electrónicos, both published by the University of Córdoba Press. She is a member of the research groups HUM-1145 COMMINT – Translation and Interpreting, Foreign Languages and Communication; TRADIT – Didactic Audiovisual Translation; and MIGRANTRAD – Translation of Migrant and Post-Migrant European Literature, based at the University of Alicante.

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Forthcoming

26 February 2026

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e-Expert seminar series
Copyright (c) 2026 Mazal Oaknín; Marga Navarrete; Victoria Showunmi, Ramona Gonczol, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jeff Bowersox, Alejandro Bolaños Garcia-Escribano, Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro, Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter, Madeline Young-Touré, Corine Tachtiris, Tasha Austin, Haydn Kirnon; Soledad Díaz Alarcón

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978-84-9927-954-1

How to Cite

Navarrete, Marga, and Soledad Díaz Alarcón , eds. 2026. Diversifying Modern Foreign Language and Translation Education. Vol. e-Expert seminar series, 8. E-Expert Seminar Series. Córdoba, ES: UCOPress . https://doi.org/10.21071/000103.