Javier Franco Aixelá
Associate professor at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Universidad de Alicante (Spain), where he teaches literary translation, ethics, documentation and theory of translation.
For twelve years (1983-1995), he was a professional translator and as such has published over 30 books with various publishers in Spain.
He has coordinated the Translation Studies Ph.D. programme at the Universidad de Alicante, which was awarded with a "quality certification" by the Spanish Ministry of Education. He was also one of the founding members and served as editor-in-chief of the journal MonTI (Monographies in Translation and Interpreting), jointly published by the universities of Alicante, Jaume I and València. Since 2019 he is president of AIETI, the main translation studies research association in Spain and Portugal.
His research topics include the bibliometrics of translation, medical translation, and the manipulation of culture in translation, with over 50 academic publications in these areas. In the last decade, he has mainly focused his research on bibliographic and bibliometric matters, and he is the creator of BITRA (Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation), available online, and comprising over 85,000 records as of July, 2021.
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