Traductora y editora español-inglés / Spanish-English translator and editor
Freelance Spanish-English translator with a reliable, meticulous, resourceful and flexible approach to translation.
Specialised in translation and revision of academic texts in the history field.
Long and wide-ranging experience in text processing and digital publishing.
A few samples of my work over the past few years:
Localising magazines and other publications for a Spanish speaking readership, including revision of original and translated texts, copy writing, fitting content into predefined layouts on InDesign.
Examples: Patek Philippe magazines and book; printed automotive magazines (Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar-Land Rover); finance publications (Citywire)
María Fernandez has worked with me in the past year on a complex project involving the translation of an academic publication. This required both considerable expertise in her native Spanish, including close attention to medieval references, and the highest quality of written English. She accomplished this task with the utmost competence and was able to render the complicated language into idiomatic English. She also conducted assiduous research into the subject in question to ensure her work was of the very highest standard and I would not hesitate to work with her again on a future project. Nicola Stapleton MA (Cantab.)
I was tutor for Maria Fernandez at Imperial College London from 2004 to 2006, on the MSc in Scientific Technical and Medical Translation with Translation Technology. Specifically, I taught her the Spanish-English translation module.
I am happy to say that Maria was an excellent student: her English was extremely good, certainly of native standard; she was hard-working, conscientious and creative; altogether a pleasure to work with. I have no hesitation in recommending her. Nicky Harman, BA Hons, Co-Chair, The Translators Association UK
MSc Scientific, Medical and Technical Translation with Translation Technology (Imperial College London, 2006).
English to Spanish and Spanish to English. Dissertation: “History and Language change in Arabic-Latin Medieval Translations in the Iberian Peninsula”. This course gave me the opportunity to make contact with the academic side of translation and to get feedback on my work.
BA (Hons) Linguistics First Class (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1988), with Chomskian syntax, Montague semantics and Relevance theory of pragmatics as my main subjects.
Born in Madrid, I have lived in Britain all my adult life, with a few years spent in Spain at different times. This combination has given me a deep and wide knowledge of both languages and cultures.
My academic background is Linguistics, with a strong emphasis on logic and theory building. I enjoy translating research papers on any subject and am very conscious of how we render complex arguments in another language.
My working life began as a “word processor operator” in London, producing documentation on one of the first word processors in existence. Since that time I have continuously adapted to changes in software and hardware. This means that your complex tables, charts and document formatting are safe in my hands.
I am very interested in history and historiography, as well as archaeology, sociology, politics and language theory.