Marta Rodríguez, Valentina

Valentina Marta-Rodríguez holds a PhD in Translation from the University of Vigo (2015) and she is a sworn French interpreter accredited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (2009). For 17 years, she combined her work as a freelance translator with positions as a temporary and adjunct lecturer in translation at the same university.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting (UVigo) in 2008, and since then she works on translation (French and English) and proofreading (Galician and Spanish), particularly in the medical field. She has worked as a translator and reviewer for highly prestigious pharmaceutical companies, notably serving as a linguistic consultant for the Sanofi-Aventis group.

In 2024, her professional career led to her receiving the Alumni Excellence Award in the humanitarian field.

She is a full member of Tremédica, the international association of translators and writers in medicine and related sciences.

She has been a lecturer at the University of Vigo since 2011. She has taught both in the former bachelor’s degree and in the current degree in Translation and Interpreting. Since 2025, she is Assistant Lecturer. She also teaches in the master’s degree in Translation for International Communication —that has been awarded the mention of excellence by the Xunta de Galicia- and in the Doctoral Program in Translation & Paratranslation.

• Research Methodology

Her current research areas include medical text genres, the use of graphic novels and comics as teaching and educational materials, and gender studies through the history of translation.

• Marta-Rodríguez, Valentina (en prensa). El lenguaje como herramienta trascendental en la relación médico-paciente: perspectivas y desafíos. En Machado de Souza, Emma y Varela Suárez, Ana (eds.). La comunicación en el contexto sanitario: retos y aproximaciones metodológicas. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.
• Marta-Rodríguez, Valentina y Varela Suárez, Ana (en prensa). Estudio de caso: la motivación instrumental del alumnado de Documentación aplicada a la traducción en las modalidades presencial y telemática. Hikma: Revista de Traducción.
• Marta-Rodríguez, Valentina (2024). Presencia de anglicismos en el periodismo científico: el caso del coronavirus. Hesperia. Anuario de Filología Hispánica, 27(1), 157-194. https://doi.org/10.35869/hafh.v27i1.5568
• Marta-Rodríguez, Valentina y Sánchez Trigo, Elena (2017). Clinical Practice Guidelines in French and Spanish: an Analysis of the Superestructure. Sendebar, 28, 161-187. https://doi.org/10.30827/sendebar.v28i0.5539
• Marta-Rodríguez, Valentina (2016). Estudio español-francés de la metaforización biomédica en las guías de práctica clínica en el ámbito de las enfermedades raras. Panace@. Revista de Medicina, Lenguaje y Traducción, 17(44), 144-149.
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