ESTHER GIMENO UGALDE

Department of Romance Studies
University of Vienna

E-Mail: esther.gimeno.ugalde@univie.ac.at                                                                                                                     

Website: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/esther.gimeno.ugalde/ 

Esther Gimeno Ugalde is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a research member of the cluster DIIA (Diálogos Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos) at the University of Lisbon (Centro de Estudos Comparatistas). Between 2013 and 2018, Gimeno Ugalde was an Assistant Professor at Boston College, and held a previous appointment as the Max Kade post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. Upon her return to Europe she worked as an Interim Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin, Summer Term 2018) of Iberian Studies at the Chair of Cultural and Social Change (Technical University of Chemnitz), substituting Prof. Teresa Pinheiro. She has also been post-doc Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2018) and at Stanford University (2022).

Her most recent work in the field of Iberian Studies focuses on language choice and multilingualism in cinema and literature, exploring questions related to language and identity. Gimeno Ugalde’s current project studies literary (self-)translation in the Iberian Peninsula, undertaking at the head of her research group within the cluster DIIA, IberTRANSLATIO – Iberian Studies and Translation Spaces. Dr. Gimeno Ugalde is also interested in the origins and development of Iberian Studies as a discipline, as well as in Iberian and Latin-American transfiction and cinema. 

Together with Santiago Pérez Isasi (Universidade de Lisboa), she is the co-editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies and co-leads the project IStReS (Iberian Studies Reference Site). With Prof. Santiago Fouz (Durham University), Dr. Gimeno Ugalde is also the promoter of Pleibéricos (Presentación de libros de Estudios Ibéricos online), an open initiative to present online new books in Iberian Studies (see book presentations on Pleibéricos’ YouTube channel). 

Recent publication:

Gimeno Ugalde, E., Pacheco Pinto, M. and Fernandes, Â. (eds.) (2021). Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones. Liverpool: Liverpool UP.