Sara Horcas Rufián

Sara is an Adjunct Professor (Professora Associada) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili where she teaches translation. She has also worked in various teaching capacities at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the United States and at Aston University in the United Kingdom. She holds an MA in Translation (2012) from the Universidad de Granada, an MA in Teacher Training (2013) from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Spain, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer-Assisted Translation and Translation Project Management (2016) from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She is currently working toward her PhD. Sara has been a freelance translator working from English and French to Spanish since 2013 specializing in international development.

Education

Bachelor's degree (Hons.) in Translation and Interpreting, Universidad de Granada, Spain (2011)

Master's degree in Translation Studies (research), Universidad de Granada, Spain (2012)

Master's degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain (2013)

Postgraduate Diploma in Computer-Assisted Translation and Translation Project Management, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain (2016)

Teaching

Tools for Specialized Translation, Tools for Subtitling, Scientific and Technical Translation (English-Spanish), Master's Thesis

Research

Translation teacher's competencies, translation teaching competences, translation teacher effectiveness

Publications

Horcas-Rufián, S. (2023). "La competencia profesional docente en los Estudios de Traducción en España: propuesta provisional de un modelo de competencias", Onomázein, (NEXII), 79-101. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.ne12.04

Horcas-Rufián, S. (2023). "Teacher Competence in Translator Education in Spain: A Provisional Proposal of a Competency Model" (Translated article), New Voices in Translation Studies, 28(1), 181-204.

Horcas-Rufián, S. (2022). "L2 translation practice in Spain: Report on a survey of professional translators", Translation & Interpreting, 14(1), 121-141

Horcas-Rufián, S. (2020). "Estudio exploratorio-descriptivo de la direccionalidad de la traducción: la perspectiva del traductor en formación", TRANS: Revista de Traductología, (24), 335-352. https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2020.v0i24.5188

Horcas-Rufián, S., and D. Kelly (2020). "Inverse (A-B/C) translation education in Spain under the EHEA", Perspectives, 28(2), 300-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1684529

Horcas-Rufián, S. (2019). "'Mi lengua, mi gente: la lengua como reconstrucción identitaria en la diáspora latinoamericana". Tonos Digital, (36), 1-21.