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Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez

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BIO

Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University. She holds a European PhD on Translation in Language Education from the University of Valladolid (Spain), where she also completed a BA in Translation and Interpreting, and an MPhil in Translation and Intercultural Communication.

RESEARCH

Her research lies at the intersection of Translation Studies, Applied Linguistics, and Multilingusl Studies, combining theoretical and applied dimensions.

Her areas of expertise include translation and language education in pluri- and multilingual contexts; sociolinguistics; didactic audiovisual translation; and minority/minorised language teaching through innovative pedagogical approaches.

A central strand of her research focuses on audiovisual translation and media accessibility and its development in contemporary society through engagement with different stakeholders, particularly in the area of audio description. Her work theorises and operationalises collaboration as a structural driver of accessibility, examining how cross-sector and transnational partnerships can bridge gaps between legislation, training, professional practice, and lived experience.

A further core strand of her scholarship focuses on translation, conflict, and memory, analysing how translation mediates narratives of conflict, sustains collective memory, and influences future acts of remembrance.

Lucía has led and contributed to interdisciplinary projects funded by the DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Erasmus+ (KA220-SCH), and Research Ireland (formerly known as the Irish Research Council), where she was Principal Investigator of ADESI, a funded project on audio description and accessibility in Ireland. Her research is widely published and presented internationally.

ADMIN

Lucía is Director of the DCU Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS), a research group advancing work on communication and translation in crisis contexts, AI and machine translation in the workforce, legal and healthcare interpreting, translation and accessibility, and literature and textual studies. She previously served as co-editor of Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (2020–2023) and as President of APTIS (Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland) from 2021 to 2024.

SUPERVISION

She welcomes expressions of interest for PhD supervision and postdoctoral mentorship in translation and language education; multilingualism; audiovisual translation and accessibility; minority/minorised language teaching; translation, conflict and memory.

For further details, please consult the “Research” and “Publications” sections.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2026	Moorkens, J.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2026) 'Audio Describing Football: A Case Study of Bohemians FC'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, 45 :90-108. [Link] https://doi.org/10.26034/cm.jostrans.2026.5620
	2025	Leonard, H.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Martyn, J. (2025) 'Lenguaje coloquial e identidad: un marco teórico para fomentar la competencia sociolingüística de ELE/L2 a través de la traducción [Colloquial language and identity: A theoretical framework for fostering sociolinguistic competence in L2 through translation]'. Hikma, 24 (2).
	2025	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) 'Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Foreign Language Education'. Hikma, 24 (1).
	2024	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Neville, C. (2024) 'Foreign language learners' perceptions of their language learning: challenges and opportunities for Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages 2017-2026'. THE LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL (ONLINE), .
	2024	Torralba, G.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2024) 'Curricular integration of audio description and mediation in Spanish language teaching'. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 11 . [Link] [DOI]
	2024	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. & Castillo Villanueva, A. (2024) 'Translating memories of violent pasts by Claudia Jünker and Désirée Schyns'. THE TRANSLATOR : STUDIES IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, . [DOI]
	2023	Pintado Gutiérrez, L., Gutiérrez, B.F., and Gómez Soler, I. (2023) 'Pedagogical mentoring in virtual exchange: Developing students’ videoconferencing skills'. Journal of Virtual Exchange, 6 (Special Issue on Virtual Exchange and the Development of Transferable Skills). [Link]
	2023	Gómez Soler, I. and Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2023) 'Teanga in 2023: Language in Society and Education'. TEANGA, 30 .
	2022	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. and G. Torralba (2022) 'New landscapes in higher education: audio description as amultilayered task in FL teaching'. THE LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL (ONLINE), . https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2022.2158209
	2022	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2022) 'Current Practices in Translation and L2 Learning in Higher Education: Lessons Learned'. L2 Journal, 14 (2):32-50. [Link]
	2021	Carreres, A., Sánchez-Noriega, M., and Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2021) 'Translation and plurilingual approaches to language teaching and learning: challenges and possibilities'. Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 7 (1):1-16.
	2021	Castillo Villanueva, A. and L. Pintado Gutiérrez (2021) 'Narrative accounts of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship: Translation and memory at a crossroad'. PERSPECTIVES - STUDIES IN TRANSLATOLOGY, 29 (1):100-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2020.1724661
	2021	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2021) 'Translation in language teaching, pedagogical translation, and code-Switching: restructuring the boundaries'. Language Learning Journal, 49 . [Link] [DOI]
	2020	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2020) 'Inverse translation and the language student: A case study'. LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 10 (1):171-193. https://doi.org/10.1515/cercles-2020-2013
	2019	Castillo Villanueva, A. and Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2019) 'Translation and Transcultural Memory in La voz dormida (2002)'. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 29 (1):156-170.
	2018	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2018) 'Mundos en palabras: learning advanced Spanish through translation by Carreres et al'. Hispanic Research Journal, 19 . [DOI]
	2012	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2012) 'Fundamentos de la Traducción Pedagógica: Traducción, Pedagogía y Comunicación [Pedagogical Translation Fundamentals: Translation, Pedagogy and Communication]'. Sendebar, 23 :321-353.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2026	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2026) 'Traducción y formación en accesibilidad: el caso de la audiodescripción en Irlanda' In: La fuerza de la traducción creativa y cultural. Granada, Spain : Comares.
	2025	González-Davies, M.; Pintado-Gutiérrez, L. (2025) 'Translation in Language Education' In: Encyclopedia of multilingual education/Encyclopédie de l'éducation plurilingue. Lausanne, Switzerland : Peter Lang (series Champs Didactiques Plurilingues).
	2025	Castillo Villanueva, A.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) 'El traductor como guardián de la memoria en la literatura española contemporánea [The Translator as Guardian of Memory in Contemporary Spanish Literature]' In: Translation and Cultural Sustainability. Challengues and New Avenues. Salamanca : Universidad de Salamanca Press. [Link] https://doi.org/10.14201/0AQ03737784
	2022	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. and Castillo Villanueva, A. (2022) 'Transcultural Memory and Translation in Contemporary Spanish Fiction' In: Handbook of Translation and Memory. London : Routledge. [Link]
	2022	Sánchez Cuadrado, A., J. Cruz Trapero, S. Lorenzo-Zamorano, M. Navarrete, L. Pintado Gutiérrez (2022) 'Role of Contextual Factors in the Implementation of Mediation Descriptors with Higher Education Language Learners' In: Enriching 21st century language education: The CEFR Companion Volume, examples from practice. Strasbourg : Council of Europe. [Link]
	2019	Pintado Gutiérrez, L (2019) 'Mapping Translation in Foreign Language Teaching: Demystifying the Construct' In: Translation and Language Teaching: Continuing the Dialogue. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
	2019	Castillo Villanueva, A. and L. Pintado Gutiérrez (2019) 'Emerging Trends in Reassessing Translation, Confict, and Memory' In: New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00698-3_1
	2012	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2012) 'The Use of Translation towards Foreign Language Autonomous Learning' In: Translation, Technology and Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning. Oxford : Peter Lang.
	2009	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2009) 'A Full Irish Breakfast: Interlanguage Perspective, Intercultural Perspective, or Both? Translation and Second Language Teaching' In: Translation in Second Language Learning and Teaching. Oxford : Peter Lang.

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2026	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2026) 'Translation in motion: Reframing language education through a reflexive lens' Revista Electrónica de Didáctica de la Traducción e Interpretación, 20 .

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2019	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. and Castillo Villanueva, A (Ed.). (2019) New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship. London: Palgrave MacMillan, [Link] [DOI]

Guest Editor

	Year	Publication
	2021	Castillo Villanueva, A. and L. Pintado Gutiérrez (2021) Special issue in Perspectives, Studies in Translatology: Narrative accounts of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship: translation and memory at a crossroad. GUESTE [Link]
	2021	Carreres, A., Sánchez-Noriega, M. and Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2021) Special issue in Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts: Translation and plurilingual approaches to language teaching and learning. GUESTE [Link]

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2025	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) The challenges of audio description in Ireland: Uniting education, users and industry (ADESI). Dublin City University, . [Link]
	2021	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Cullen, C. (2021) Languages at DCU. Dublin City University, .

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2026	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2026) How audio description lets all audiences see the full picture, RTÉ Brainstorm. [Link]
	2019	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Castillo Villanueva, A. (2019) Why past events like the Spanish Civil War still resonate with us today, RTÉ Brainstorm. [Link]

Podcast

	Year	Publication
	2026	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2026) Audio Description research in Ireland, and Be My Eyes in the workplace – Talking Technology episode 106, Vision ireland. PODCAST [Link]
	2025	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) Advocacy Talks Episode 10 - The essential role of Audio Description. Vision Ireland. PODCAST [Link]
	2023	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Torralba, G. (2023) Audio description in language learning, DCU Edge of Discovery. PODCAST [Link]

Recording

	Year	Publication
	2023	(2023) Universal Design in Education: Using Audio Description. REC [Link]
	2016	Lucia Pintado Gutiérrez; Alicia Castillo Villanueva (2016) In Conversation with Nick Caistor: Women’s Voices beyond National Frontiers. Instituto Cervantes Dublin: REC [Link]

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2015	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2015) The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2015 *The Colour and the Shape of Translation in the Foreign Language Classroom: The Dis/integration of an Interdisciplinary Field?*
	2012	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2012) V Jornadas Didácticas. Instituto Cervantes Manchester *El discurso en ELE y los géneros textuales: una propuesta a través de la traducción - [Discourse in Spanish as a Foreign Language and Textual Genres: A Proposal Through Translation]*

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2026	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2026) University of Limerick Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Audio Description as Accessible Translation Practice Ireland, .
	2025	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) APTIS Audio description and the industry -, .
	2025	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Moorkens, J. (2025) 11th EST Congress: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies Accessing sport in Ireland: A case study of audio description in Bohemians FC Leeds, 30/06/2025-03/07/2025.
	2025	Buil, P.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) XIV Jornadas de Innovación docente de la UNED El proyecto TRADILAB: Implementación de la traducción audiovisual didáctica para estudiantes de inglés de nivel C1 [The TRADILAB project: Implementing didactic audiovisual translation for C1 English learners] Madrid, 16/06/2025-17/06/2025.
	2025	Moorkens, J.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) Translation Studies Network of Ireland (TSNI) Audio describing football: A case study of Bohemians FC DCU, Dublin, 08/05/2025-09/05/2025.
	2025	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) New values in Translation Pedagogy Academic Insights into Accessibility and Audio Description Kraków, Poland, .
	2025	Moorkens, J.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2025) Research Series, University of Warwick Audio describing football: A case study of Bohemians FC Warwick, .
	2024	Buil, P.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2024) Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility in Education, Sapienza University of Rome Implementing Didactic Audiovisual Translation for C1 English Learners Rome, Italy, 05/12/2024-06/12/2024.
	2024	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (DCU) Sharon Black (UEA) Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano (UCL) Xi Wang (University of Bristol) (2024) APTIS Unconference, University of Warwick Advancing Media Accessibility Training in 2024 and Beyond University of Warwick, 07/11/2024-09/11/2024.
	2024	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Torralba, G. (2024) APTIS Unconference, University of Warwick Language learning, audiovisual translation and accessibility University of Warwick, .
	2024	(2024) ASELE Audio descripción y accesibilidad en el aula University of Edinburgh, 16/07/2024-20/07/2024.
	2024	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2024) ADESI: accesibilidad, audio descripción y diversidad en Irlanda University of Vitoria, 29/05/2024-31/05/2024.
	2024	Pintado Gutiérrez, L.; Castillo Villanueva, A. (2024) Traducción y Sostenibilidad Cultural Memory and Resistance in Translation: Contemporary Spanish Literature Salamanca, 17/04/2024-19/04/2024.
	2023	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2023) Colóquio de Tradução Traducción y educación de lenguas: un paisaje actual Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, 08/11/2023-08/11/2023.
	2023	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2023) CALS Annual Research Day 2023 Accessibility in foreign language teaching and learning UL, 24/05/2023-.
	2023	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. and Castillo Villanueva, A. (2023) Radical Translation(s)/Translating the Radical Counter- memory and translation in conflict – how resistance is built in contemporary translations UCC, 27/04/2023-28/04/2023.
	2023	Torralba, G. and Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2023) IRAAL lecture Audiodescription in Ireland: when language learners become social agents Dublin City University, .
	2023	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. and Torralba, G. (2023) 1st International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility (UNED) Raising communicative awareness through audio description in the FL classroom Madrid, Spain, 22/03/2023-24/03/2023.
	2023	Castillo Villanueva, A.; Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2023) University College London Translation at the interplay between cultural and transcultural memory London, 27/03/2023-27/03/2023.
	2022	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2022) Avances en traducción, mediación y enseñanza de lenguas. Propuestas pedagógicas actuales Verona, 31/08/2022-02/09/2022.
	2022	Sánchez Cuadrado, A., J. Cruz Trapero, S. Lorenzo-Zamorano, M. Navarrete, L. Pintado Gutiérrez (2022) Council of Europe Role of Contextual Factors in the Implementation of Mediation Descriptors with Higher Education Language Learners Strasburg, 23/05/2022-24/05/2022.
	2021	Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2021) IRAAL Annual Conference: Applying Linguistics in the 21st Century Translation and FL teaching in HE: Current practices UCD, Ireland, 25/11/2021-26/11/2021.
	2021	Gutiérrez, B., Gómez Soler, I., Pintado Gutiérrez, L. (2021) Effective Videoconferencing in Virtual Exchange: The Effect of Pedagogical Mentoring Virtual Exchange in Higher Education: Charting the Irish Experience UCC, UL (Ireland), 17/09/2021-.
	2021	Muñoz-Basols, J., Fuertes Gutiérrez, M., Neville, C., Pintado Gutiérrez, L., Soler Montes, C. (2021) Simposio virtual El Español en Europa El español en Reino Unido e Irlanda Heidelberg, Germany, 21/07/2021-23/07/2021.
	2021	Pintado Gutiérrez, L., Cadwell, P., Kenny, D. (2021) Evolving Profiles: The Future of Translation and Interpreting Training APTIS: Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland SALIS, DCU, 18/11/2021-19/11/2021.
	2019	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2019) Translation in Language Teaching: Rethinking the Role of Translation in Third-level Language Learning Translation in language teaching, pedagogical translation, and code-switching: Restructuring the boundaries University College Cork, 09/12/2019-.
	2019	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez & Gloria Torralba Miralles (2019) Audiodescripción y mediación: experiencias en el aula de lengua extranjera [Audiodescription and mediation: Experiences in the FL classroom PluriTAV International Conference Multilingualism, Translation and Language Teaching University of Valencia, Spain, 24/10/2019-25/10/2019.
	2019	Lucia Pintado Gutiérrez, Ángeles Carreres, María Noriega Sánchez (2019) The translation turn: current debates on the role of translation in language teaching and learning The translation turn: Current debates on the role of translation in language teaching and learning University of Cambridge, 09/09/2019-.
	2018	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez & Alicia Castillo Villanueva (2018) Translation, Power and Politics Género, poder y memoria en la traducción de La voz dormida (2002) de Dulce Chacón Universidade Catolica Lisbon, 22/11/2018-23/11/2018.
	2018	Lucia Pintado Gutiérrez (2018) Primer Simposio Internacional sobre Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera ¿La traducción ha vuelto para quedarse? Evolución y tendencias actuales de la traducción en el aula de ELE NUI Galway, 24/08/2018-25/08/2018.
	2018	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2018) Translanguaging: Opportunities and Challenges in a Global World, The Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), University of Ottawa, Canada Translanguaging and Pedagogical Translation: Looking for a Fuller Construct in the Foreign Language Classroom University of Ottawa, Canada, .
	2017	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2017) International Conference on Translation and Language Teaching, University of Maribor, Slovenia Mapping translation in foreign language teaching. Demystifying the construct University of Maribor, Slovenia, 07/09/2017-08/09/2017.
	2017	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2017) Applied Linguistics in the Era of Globalization: Opportunities, Challenges, Practices, Irish Association of Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) Global Practices, Global Challenges: Translation in the Foreign Language Classroom University of Limerick, 18/11/2017-18/11/2017.
	2017	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva (2017) Translation, Conflict and Memory: II Symposium on Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia, Dublin City University Translation, Conflict and Memory: II Symposium on Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia Dublin City University, 03/11/2017-04/11/2017.
	2016	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva (2016) Re-encountering the Canon: Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia, University College Cork Reframing Conflict: Memory and Translation of Republican Women University College Cork, 23/09/2016-24/09/2016.
	2016	Lucía Pintado Gutierrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva (2016) SALIS Research Seminar Translating the Experience of Republican Women in Contemporary Spanish Fiction: The Sleeping Voice (2002) Dublin City University, 20/04/2016-.
	2016	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Patricia García García (2016) 4th Theories & Realities in Translation & Writing Forum, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy Translation and Creative Writing Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy, 05/05/2016-06/05/2016.
	2015	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2015) International VAKKI Symposium (Research Group for Translation, LSP and Multilingualism), Borders under Negotiation, University of Vaasa, Finland Translation and the Negotiation of Borders Vaasa, Finland, 11/02/2015-14/02/2015.
	2015	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva (2015) Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS), University of Warwick, England Traducción y narrativa contemporánea: el caso de La voz dormida (2002) de Dulce Chacón University of Warwick, England, 13/11/2015-14/11/2015.
	2015	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2015) The Asian Conference on Language Learning, Osaka, Japan The Nature of Translation in the Foreign Language Classroom Osaka, Japan, 30/04/2015-03/05/2015.
	2013	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2013) AHGBI Annual Conference, University of Oxford, England Pedagogical Translation: A Study University of Oxford, England, 25/03/2013-27/03/2013.
	2012	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2012) Seminar: V Jornadas didácticas de Español como Lengua Extranjera, Instituto Cervantes Manchester, England Traducción y géneros textuales en ELE [Translation and Textual Genres: Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language] Instituto Cervantes, Manchester 2012, England, 02/07/2012-02/07/2012.
	2012	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2012) Seminar: BA Translation and Interpreting, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Global Lives, Global Worlds? Erasmus, here I come! Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 10/04/2012-10/04/2012.
	2012	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2012) BA Translation and Interpreting, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Humanistic and Literary Texts: A Pragmatic Approach Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 10/04/2012-10/04/2012.
	2011	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2011) XX Encuentro Práctico de Profesores de ELE, Barcelona, Spain Redescubriendo la traducción en el aula de ELE - [Rediscovering Translation in the Classroom of Spanish as a Foreign Language] International House-Ed. Difusión, Barcelona, 16/12/2011-17/12/2011.
	2011	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2011) Seminar. MA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Faculty of Spanish Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language in the United Kingdom Faculty of Spanish Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain, 28/04/2011-28/04/2011.
	2011	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2011) Seminar: MA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Faculty of Spanish Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain Pedagogical Translation: A Recurring Tool in the Language Classroom Faculty of Spanish Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain, 25/04/2011-25/04/2011.
	2011	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2011) Research Seminar, School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester Language Students: Lost in Translation? School of Modern languages, University of Leicester, England, 21/11/2011-21/11/2011.
	2011	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2011) Seminar. MA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Faculty of Spanish Philology, U. of Salamanca Errors that English Speaking Students Make When they Learn Spanish: Their Evolution Through Interlanguage Faculty of Spanish Philology, University of Salamanca, Spain, 25/04/2011-25/04/2011.
	2010	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2010) I International Language Conference: Translation, Technology and Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning, NUI Galway Translation in the Language Classroom and Autonomous Learning National University Ireland Galway, 09/12/2010-10/12/2010.
	2009	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2009) Conference on Translating at the Frontier, AIETI, University of Vigo, Spain Translation and Borders: The Relevance of Interdisciplinary Fields Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación, University of Vigo, Spain, 15/10/2009-17/10/2009.
	2009	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2009) International Conference on Translation Right or Wrong, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Empirical Reseach: Translation in the Language Classroom Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 06/03/2009-07/03/2009.
	2008	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2008) 4th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Textual Studies, DCU, Ireland Textual Studies and Translation Dublin College University, Ireland, 05/06/2008-07/06/2008.
	2008	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2008) International Conference of Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning, NUI Maynooth & UCD, Ireland Translation in the L2 Classroom: An Interlinguistic and Intercultural Element University of Maynooth & University College Dublin, Ireland, 27/03/2008-29/03/2008.
	2007	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez (2007) Conference on In/Difference: Current and Historical Perspectives on Cultures in Contact, UL, Ireland Translation and Applied Linguistics Royal Irish Academy & University of Limerick, Ireland, 07/11/2007-09/11/2007.

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS)	Director	-
Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland	President	-
Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL)	member	-
Applied Linguistics Group (ALG)	member	-
Centre of Applied Linguistics (CALS)	member	-
Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE)	member	-

Honors and Awards

Date	Title	Awarding Body
01/11/2023	Great Pedagogical Project, The Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting UK and Ireland (APTIS)	The Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting UK and Ireland
01/03/2022	Nomination for President's Award for Engagement, Dublin City University	Dublin City University
01/05/2020	Nomination for President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (shortlisted, Academic Staff Category), Dublin City University	Dublin City University
01/03/2017	Nomination for President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Academic Staff Category), Dublin City University	Dublin City University
01/06/2010	Nomination for Best Academic, University of Leicester	University of Leicester, England.
01/05/2006	Commendation for Excellence in Teaching Spanish, Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Limerick	University of Limerick, Ireland.

Committees

Committee	Function	From / To
Teanga - the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics	https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga	05/10/2020 - 02/10/2023
Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts		01/06/2022 - 01/06/2027
Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland		01/12/2021 - 24/11/2024
External Engagement at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences		03/08/2020 - 01/09/2022
MA in Professional Translation for European Languages		01/07/2021 - 03/11/2025

Other Activities

	Description
	Creation of a video promoting languages at DCU: https://youtu.be/jvRsu6rbM2A
	The School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, at DCU held a DCU Languages Week 2022 supported by Languages Connect: https://www.dcu.ie/salis/languages-week-2022-clone It was open to all interested 4th, 5th and 6th year secondary school students. Events during language week included: — virtual workshops — lecture taster sessions on campus (4th/TY students only) — a 10 word story language competition Virtual workshops and lecture taster sessions were delivered by experts, artists and language instructors relating to the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Irish, Japanese and Spanish. It targeted students who are curious to know a little bit more about other forms of art or culture, or wanted to discover a new language.
	“Expressing yourself in Covid times” was the theme of an exciting new languages competition targeting Transition Year (TY) students and launched by DCU’s School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) in 2021. This competition was made possible thanks to the support of Languages Connect: https://www.dcu.ie/commsteam/news/2021/apr/dcu-launches-languages-competition-transition-year-students 2020/2021 was a year like no other and as schools returned to the classroom, DCU wanted to give TY students the opportunity to express themselves in a creative way through the languages they love. Specifically, looked for competition entries using the languages taught at DCU which include: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

Enterprise Engagement

	Year	Engagement Type	Client	Description
	2025	Continuous Professional Development/Training	Vision Ireland	Collaboration to explore and further expand awareness and provision of audio description in Ireland.

Outreach Activities

	Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
	2022	Educational Outreach/Public Engagement	Dublin City University	Languages Pathway for Post Primary Students at DCU is a project that the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies launched together with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences thanks to the initiative of Languages Connect. It intends to reach out to students in secondary schools in Ireland and promote the importance of studying languages through a number of outreach events (2020-2022).

Media

	Title	Year	Type	Authors
	‘In Conversation with Nick Caistor: Women’s Voices beyond National Frontiers’ — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE_CVljTnBo	2016	Television interview/panel discussion	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva
	Why past events like the Spanish Civil War still resonate with us today — https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0821/1070107-why-past-events-like-the-spanish-civil-war-still-resonate-today/	2019	Newspaper article (online)	Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva

Research Interests

Lucía's research is grounded in translation studies and language education, with a particular focus on how translation can be used as a pedagogical tool in the language classroom, and developed as a core competence for language learners. Her work also examines the integration of accessibility and audiovisual translation into language teaching and learning. Her interdisciplinary approach is informed by Translation Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Studies and Didactic Audiovisual Translation.

Her current research interests and expertise include the field of audiovisual translation and accessibility, with a particular focus on audio description (AD). She looks at how evidence-based strategies and collabortaive approaches can address challenges in AD provision, professionalisation, and integration within the media and entertainment industry, particularly in Ireland and across Europe. This work, supported by the Irish Research Council-funded project (2023-2025), positions accessibility as both a professional imperative and a societal priority.

Lucía also investigates the nexus of translation and memory studies, with a focus on cultural artefacts from the Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and the post-dictatorship period within literary translation. Her works examines how translation mediate processes of memory , positions the translator as a guardian of memory, and shapes future acts of remembrance.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7627-0440

RESEARCH CENTRES AND GROUPS

Director of the DCU Centre of Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS)

Member of the Applied Linguistics Research Group, SALIS, DCU

Member of TRADIT (UNED)

Member of ARENA (UNED)

Research Projects

Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date
HOW TIMELY: Handling Our Wor(l)ds in Translation: Intersemiotic strategies for Minority and Endangered Languages’ promotion among Youngers	Partner and DCU Coordinator	Within the EU’s commitment to comprehensive language learning, linguistic diversity and heritage awareness and preservation, HOW TIMELY promotes Minority and Endangered Languages’ (MEL) revitalization among youth through Intermedial/Audio-visual Accessibility & Translation (AVAT). Focusing on 3 member-states and MELs (Catalan, Irish, Sardinian) and developing from the Rise Up Horizon project, it plans to expand to other MELs post-piloting, employing innovative digital tools for teaching/learning.	18/12/2024	17/12/2027
The challenges of audio description in Ireland: Uniting education, users and industry (ADESI)	PI	This project involves a mapping exercise of audio description across education, the industry of entertainment, and the end-users in Ireland. I look at how evidence-based strategies may help in addressing challenges such as AD services, professionalization pathways, and the integration of AD in the entertainment industry, particularly in Ireland within the broader European context.	01/12/2023	01/04/2025
Educational challenges and curriculum development in audio description. A case study	PI	The main goal of the project is to investigate how leading universities in audiovisual translation and media accessibility are teaching this skill to future audio describers and linguists. We will focus on identifying the opportunities, challenges, and rationale of educators whose expertise lies in audio description.	01/01/2025	29/04/2026
Best classroom practice of didactic audiovisual translation in language education	Principal Investigator	This ongoing project explores the benefits of audio description and accessibility in language education. Publications based on this research include 'New landscapes in higher education: audio description as a multilayered task in FL teaching' in The Language Learning Journal (2022) and 'Curricular integration of audio description and mediation in Spanish language teaching' in the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (2024). More resources may be found here: https://www.dcu.ie/hr/edi-audiovisual-translation-and-accessibility-salis	02/03/2020	28/04/2026
Slanguages connect: pedagogical translation as a means for teaching sociolinguistic variation - Hannah Leonard	DCU PI		01/09/2021	31/08/2025
Telecollaboration and language learning	Principal Investigator		23/11/2020	01/09/2021
Student agency and pedagogical translation	Principal Investigator		01/11/2018	02/09/2019
New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship	Principal Investigator		01/01/2018	01/10/2018
II Symposium on Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia: Translation, Conflict and Memory	Principal Investigator		03/04/2017	04/11/2017
Pedagogical Translation and Code-Switching	Principal Investigator		03/04/2017	22/12/2017
Research Series: Translating the Spanish Civil War and Dictatorship in the Literature of the 20th and 21st Century	Principal Investigator		01/02/2016	29/04/2016

Internal Collaborators

	Type	Name	Company	Role
	Internal	Alicia Castillo Villanueva	DCU	Academic
	Internal	Inmaculada Gómez Soler	DCU	Academic

External Collaborators

Type	Name	Company	Role
External	Craig Neville	University College Cork	Academic
External	Gloria Torralba Miralles	Universitat Jaume I	Academic
External	Javier Muñoz-Basols	University of Oxford	Academic
External	Carlos Soler Montes	University of Edinburgh	Academic
External	Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez	Open University	Academic
External	Joaquín Cruz Trapero	University of Jaén	Academic
External	Ángeles Carreres	University of Cambridge	Academic
External	Marga Navarrete	University College London	Academic
External	María Sánchez-Noriega	University of Cambridge	Academic
External	Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano	University of Manchester	Academic
External	Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado	University of Granada	Academic

Teaching Interests

Lucía has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of expertise include general and specialised translation, contemporary Spain, ab initio and advanced language skills, and the development of virtual learning environments and digital tools.

Lucía believes in a student-centered approach to teaching and learning where the classroom becomes a forum. She makes every effort to build an inclusive and critical learning environment.

She has contributed to training courses for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language and also for translators and interpreters in Ireland and Spain (University of Salamanca, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Limerick) and Instituto Cervantes Dublin.