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  FRANCO AIXELA, JAVIER

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FRANCO AIXELA, JAVIER
FRANCO AIXELA, JAVIER
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Position:
PROFESOR/A TITULAR UNIVERSIDAD
Dept.
TRADUCCION E INTERPRETACION
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Academic background

  • Doctor en Filología Inglesa.
    Universidad de Alicante. (29/11/1996)
  • DOCTORADO EN ESTUDIOS DE FILOLOGIA INGLESA
    Centro de Estudios de Doctorado y Posgrado (21/11/1996)
  • Licenciatura con Grado.
    Universidad de Alicante. (14/06/1995)
  • Licenciado en Filología Inglesa.
    Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (09/12/1986)

Javier  Franco Aixelá  is a senior lecturer 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, he was a professional translator and as such has published about 40 books in Spain.

He has coordinated the Translation Studies Ph.D. programme at the Universidad de Alicante, which was awarded with a "quality mention" by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

His research topics include the bibliometrics of translation, medical translation, and the manipulation of culture in translation, with some 60 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 some 90,000 records as of December 2021.