Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

   

Angeles Carreres's interests lie in the fields of translation studies and language teaching. Her monograph Cruzando límites: la retórica de la traducción en Jacques Derrida (Peter Lang, 2005) examines the impact of post-structuralist theory, in particular deconstruction, on contemporary thinking on translation. Her current research focuses on the role of translation in language teaching and learning. Over the years Angeles has been involved in various projects aimed at the production of language learning materials. As a consultant author for the Open University Spanish programme, she is co-author of an advanced course book and co-editor of an anthology of texts for advanced students. She has also worked with the Cambridge University Language Centre on the project Español en vivo.

Angeles has translated two novels into Spanish: Iola Leroy, o las sombras disipadas (PUV, 2008), by the 19th-century African American author Frances E. W. Harper, and Una larga canción (El Aleph, 2011), by the British Jamaican author Andrea Levy, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.

In 2008 she was one of eleven recipients of the Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching, awarded by the University of Cambridge.