Amparo Hurtado Albir

Amparo Hurtado Albir holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the ESIT of the Université Paris III, she is a French-Spanish translator and professor of translation and interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She has been the principal investigator of the PACTE research group since its creation in 1997. She has supervised 10 funded research projects about the didactics of translation, translation competence, as well as its acquisition, levels and evaluation. She was the principal investigator of the NACT project, and she currently leads the EACT (Evaluation in the Acquisition of Translation Competence) and EFFORT (Towards a European framework of reference for Translation) projects. She is the author of over 100 publications about translation theory, the didactics of translation and translation competence, including La notion de fidélité en traduction (1990); Enseñar a traducir (1999); Traducción y Traductología (2001; 2017, 9 th ed.); Aprender a traducir del francés al español. (2015); and Researching Translation Competence by PACTE Group (ed., 2017). She is also director of the Aprender a traducir series.