María Jesús Blasco Mayor is an interpreter and translator who has been teaching interpreting since 1997 at Universitat Jaume I (Spain), both at BA and Master programmes. She has also been invited to lecture at Master programmes in other universities, both nationally and internationally. Her PhD research centered on the comprehension component of conference interpreter training from a cognitive standpoint. She has participated in several research projects on interpreting quality, legal translation and interpreting, and led an interpreting in asylum settings research project. She has published at leading journals, authored and edited volumes on her research interests which include cognitive processes in interpreting training, interpreting quality, medical and legal interpreting and interpreting in asylum settings in Spain, as well as the use of new technologies and corpora in interpreting education. She has organized and taught specialized courses for Administration of Justice officials, the Bar, and legal translator and interpreter associations and UNHCR in Spain. She is a member of the UNHCR (Spanish committee) expert group on interpreting for refugees and is currently working on the edition of an interdisciplinary volume on interpreting in the context of international protection. She is a member of the Board of Directors of AUnETI, where she works as an expert member in the regulation of the professional practice of legal interpreters and translators. She is a member of the research group ECPC at Universitat Jaume I, and is currently working as a researcher of the project RE-CRI Representaciones originales, traducidas e interpretadas de la(s) crisis de refugiados: triangulación metodológica desde el análisis del discurso basado en corpus/Original, translated and interpreted representations of the refugee crisis: methodological triangulation with corpus-based discourse analysis (PID2019-108866RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3321
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9555-0336

Roles

  • Universitat Jaume I

    University, Castelló, Spain
    Professor

  • Universitat Jaume I

    Other, Castelló, Spain

Research

L2 proficiency as predictor of aptitude for interpreting

Authors Maria Jesus Blasco Mayor
Year 2015
Journal Name Translation and Interpreting Studies
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
2 Journal Article

E-Learning for interpreting

Authors María J. Blasco Mayor, Amparo Jiménez Ivars
Year 2007
Journal Name Babel
3 Journal Article

Institutional Translation and Interpreting

Year 2020
Journal Name
5 Journal Article

La interpretación judicial en España en un momento de cambio

Authors María Jesús Blasco Mayor, Maribel del Pozo Triviño
Journal Name MonTI. Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación
6 Journal Article

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