Elena Zagar da Cunha Galvão (1D14-9480-D26E)

Curriculum Vitae

Elena Zagar da Cunha Galvão

Elena Zagar Galvão obtained her PhD in Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2015. The title of her thesis is Gesture in Simultaneous Interpreting from English into European Portuguese: An Exploratory Study. She has an MA in English Studies from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she was a Fulbright grantee and a Teaching Assistant. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Translation and Terminology from the University of Porto and a degree in translation from the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, University of Trieste, Italy. She teaches general translation from Portuguese into English to undergraduates and specialised translation in the Master’s programme in Translation and Language Services (MTSL).. She is the coordinator of MTSL as well as of the Specialisation Course in Conference Interpreting. She is a member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and the Associação Portuguesa de Intérpretes de Conferência (APIC). Her research interests include conference interpreting, gesture studies and multimodality.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Elena Zagar da Cunha Galvão

Citation names

Zagar Galvão
Galvão
Galvão, EZ

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 1D14-9480-D26E

Telephones

Mobile phone

962123034 (Personal)

Addresses

Via Panorâmica s/n, 4150-564, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)		Upper intermediate (B2)
Croatian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)		Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)		Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/06 Concluded	Estudos Anglo-Americanos (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Tradução Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Gesture in simultaneous interpreting from english into european portuguese: An exploratory study" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado com distinção
2005 - 2006 Concluded	Diploma de Especialização do Curso de Mestrado em Terminologia e Tradução (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)) Major in Translation Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Very good
1993 Concluded	Certificate in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults (Postgraduate Certificate) Major in English language teaching Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufacturers and Commerce, United Kingdom
1992/05 Concluded	Master of Arts in English (Master) Major in English Language and American Literature The University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Arts and Sciences, United States	4.0 Grade Point Average
1989/03 Concluded	Translation (Laurea Magistrale) Major in Translation Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento delle Scienze Giuridiche del Linguaggio dell'Interpretazione e della Traduzione, Italy "Translation and analysis of some short stories by Bobbie Ann Mason" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	110/110 cum laude

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal

2016 - 2018	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal

2013 - 2016	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/02 - Current	Member of the Pedagogical Council	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2014 - 2023	Member of the Executive Council	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/09/01 - 2024/07/31	Post-graduate Specialisation Course in Conference Interpreting 2023-2024 SCIC.B.1.001(2023)8247316 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2023/07/07	Post-graduate Specialisation Course in Conference Interpreting 2022-2023 SCIC.B.1(2022)6183870 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	European Commission Concluded
2021/09/01 - 2022/07/31	Post-graduate Specialisation Course in Conference Interpreting 2021-2022 SCIC.B.1(2021) 5610244 Principal investigator	European Commission Concluded
2020/09/01 - 2021/07/31	Post-graduate Specialisation Course in Conference Interpreting 2020/2021 4746333 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	European Commission Concluded
2019/09/01 - 2020/07/31	Post-graduate Specialisation Course in Conference Interpreting EC 05-2019-2020 - SCIC.B.1 (2019) 5616871 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	European Commission Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2017/10/15 - 2021/04/14	Development of the Interdisciplinary Master Programme on Computational Linguistics at Central Asian Universities 585845-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Galhano-Rodrigues, Isabel; Zagar Galvão; Cruz-Santos, Anabela. Recent Perspectives on Gesture and Multimodality. Cambridge Scholar Publishing. 2019. Published • Editor
Book chapter	Zagar Galvão. "Making sense of gestures in simultaneous interpreting: the insiders' view". In En más de un sentido: multimodalidad y construcción de significados en traducción e interpretación; Coleção: Tibón: estudios traductológicos, edited by Wirnitzer, Gisela Marcelo, 118-143. Las Palmas de la Gran Canaria: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Servicio de Publicaciones y Difusión Científica, 2021. Published Zagar Galvão, Elena. "Chapter 6. Gesture functions and gestural style in simultaneous interpreting". In Benjamins Translation Library, edited by Salaets, Heidi; Brône, Geert, 151-179. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. Published • 10.1075/btl.149.07gal Zagar Galvão, Elena. "Hand Gestures and Speech Production in the Booth: Do Simultaneous Interpreters Imitate the Speaker?". In Estudo de Linguística II, edited by Carapinha, Conceição; Santos, Isabel A.. Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra University Press, 2013. Published Galvão, Elena Zagar; Rodrigues, Isabel Galhano. "The importance of listening with one's eyes: a case study of multimodality in simultaneous interpreting". In New Insights into Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, edited by Diaz Cintas, Jorge; Matamala, Ana; Neves, Joselia, 239-253. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL (Rodopi), 2010. 10.1163/9789042031814_018
Book review	Galvão (rev.), Elena Zagar. "Introduction to Court Interpreting". Vol. 4(1), (2017): 189-192. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/article/view/2872. Published
Encyclopedia entry	Zagar Galvão; Galhano-Rodrigues, Isabel. "Nonverbal communication". In Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies, edited by Pöchhacker, Franz. Taylor and Francis, 2015. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315678467/routledge-encyclopedia-interpreting-studies-franz-pochhacker. Published Zagar Galvão, Elena. "Gesture". In Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies, edited by Pöchhacker, Franz. Taylor and Francis, 2015. Published
Journal article	Zagar Galvão, Elena; Martín de León, Celia. "Making gestures inside and outside the booth - A comparative study". Parallèles (2024): Accepted Bacquelaine, Françoise; Zagar Galvão, Elena. "Translating Ulyssei@s: Work in Progress between General and Specialized Translation in the light of Neural Machine Translation". Cadernos de Tradução, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2024): Under revision Zagar Galvão, Elena. "Speech and Gesture in the Booth – A Descriptive Approach to Multimodality in Simultaneous Interpreting". Translation and the (Trans)formation of Identities, Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Seminar in Translation Studies 2008. (2009): https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/cetra/papers/files/galvao.pdf. Open access • Published Galvão, Elena Zagar. "Joyce's italian translations: a reassessment of the Joyce-Vidacovich collaboration". (1998): https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/mathesis/article/view/3812. 10.34632/mathesis.1998.3812
Translation	Martelo, Rosa Maria; Medeiros, Paulo de. Some portuguese poetry from the past fifty years : a reading through images. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2020. Published Martelo, Rosa Maria; Medeiros, Paulo de. Last will(s): withdrawal and resistance in the poetry of José Miguel Silva. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2020. Published Martelo, Rosa Maria. Childhood memories in the poetry of Adília Lopes. Ber n, Switzerland: Peter Lang. 2017. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/02/01	Gesture in Conference Interpreting	Segunda Jornada sobre o Estudo do Gesto (Second Conference on Gesture Studies) Associação iGesto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07/13	Making gestures inside and outside the booth: a comparative study Panel on Gesture in spoken and signed-to-spoken language interpreting organized by Sílvia Gabarró-López and Alan Cienki)	18ª International Pragmatics Conference International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) (Brussels, Belgium)
2022/11/22	Access to the Dedicated Speech Repository for Trainers	26th SCIC University Next Generation EU Interpreters DG Interpretation, European Commission (Brussels, Belgium)
2022/06/06	Translating Ulyssei@s: Work in Progress between General and Specialized Translation in the light of Neural Machine Translation	10º Congresso Internacional da AIETI 2022 - Circum-navegações transtextuais e culturais Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2020/03/13	Conference Interpreting in the Digital Age	Conference Interpreting in the Digital Age Universidade de Cabo Verde (Praia, Cape Verde)
2020/02/06	Born, Made or Replaced by AI: Conference Interpreters in the Age of Globalisation	New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies III Nova Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/11/27	From Languages to Interpretation: Paths and Experiencees / Das Línguas à Interpretação: Percursos e Experiências	Jornadas de Tradução da FLUP Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras (Porto, Portugal)
2019/05/08	Gesture in Simultaneous Interpreting from English into European Portuguese	Jornadas da Língua Portuguesa Università degli Studi Internazionale di Roma, UNINT (Rome, Italy)
2019/05/07	Para mau entendedor, nem tradutor basta: uma abordagem funcional à tradução dos provérbios	Jornada da Língua Portuguesa / Portuguese Language Day Università degli Studi Internazionale di Roma - UNINT (Rome, Italy)
2018/12/13	A contrastive analysis of "well" and its translations in TV interpreting discourse: the case of the 2016 US presidential debates	Congresso: Marcadores Discursivos: o português como referência contrastiva Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/06/25 - 2018/06/29	Summer School: Cybernetic translation: in search of a balance between human beings and machines Escola de Tradução \| Tradução cibernética: em busca do equilíbrio entre seres humanos e máquinas https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=77083 (2018/06/25 - 2018/06/29) Other (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020 - 2020	Cognitive Linguistic Studies (2213-8722 \| E-ISSN: )	John Benjamins Publishing Company

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022/02/01 - 2022/05/01	AIETI International conference, Transtextual and Cultural Circumnavigations	Universidade do Minho

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2020 - 2020	Project assessment for the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the field of Translation Studies Evaluator	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2019 - Current	Translation Matters (2184-4585)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras