Associate Professor, Universitat de València · Director of the HISTRADCyT research group
Universitat de València
Associate Professor at the Universitat de València and director of the HISTRADCyT research group. Specialist in the history of scientific and technical translation in Spain (18th–20th centuries).
Julia Pinilla Martínez holds a degree in French Philology and a PhD from the Universitat de València. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Philology (Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication), a member of the López Piñero Inter-University Institute (IILP) at the Universitat de València, and of the Language and Science Thematic Network at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2013 she has directed the HISTRADCyT research group, devoted to the history of scientific and technical translation in Spain (18th–20th centuries) (GIUV151-2013). She has organised four biennial editions of the Conference on the History of Non-Literary Translation (2012, 2014,
2016, 2018).
She has edited three journal issues: Cuadernos de Filología Francesa, 22 (University of Extremadura, 2011), Quaderns de Filologia, Estudis Lingüístics, 17 (Universitat de València, 2012) and Synergies Espagne, 12 (online, 2019), the last two as co-editor. She has also co-edited five monographs with Brigitte Lépinette. She is currently compiling and coordinating a dictionary of translators, of which two
volumes have already been published: the first devoted to medicine, Ensayo de un diccionario de traductores españoles de obras científicas y técnicas (1750-1900): medicina (Vertere series, 2017), and the second, Repertorio de traductores españoles (1750-1900). Obras traducidas y propias en el ámbito de las Humanidades (2019). She has also published numerous articles on the history of translation.
Between 2021 and 2024 she served as deputy editor and then as board member of the translation journal MonTI at the Universitat Jaume I.
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If your research deals with specialised translation, terminology or discourse, let’s talk. The group is open to collaborations, research stays and joint projects.
