Marta Ortega

Marta Ortega Sáez has been Lecturer of English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) since 2008. In 2013 she defended her PhD thesis on currently published translations into Spanish from English originally produced during the Franco dictatorship.

Since 2007 she has participated in a number of conferences and has published about the reception and censorship of writers in English in the postwar period in Spain including Charlotte Brontë, Rosamond Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, Vita Sackville-West and Louise May Alcott. She has also published a biography of one of the most prolific translators of the Franco dictatorship, Juan G. de Luaces, in the academic journal Arbor(2009).

She is part of TRACE (TRAducción y CEnsura)

(http://trace.unileon.es/?page_id=2) which studies censorship in translations produced in Spain during the 20th and 21st centuries. She focuses on the translation into Spanish of English prose fiction texts.