Full professor at the University of Bologna since 2019, Muñoz’s work lies at the interface between multilectal mediated communication and cognition. His research interests focus on developing cognitive translatology, a situated (4EA) cognition approach within cognitive translation & interpreting studies. Muñoz is currently studying translation process tracing through keylogging; cognitive effort, demand, load, and friction; attention allocation and variation; multitasking and code switching; and common features of oral, signed, and written multilectal mediated communication, such as the mental lexicon. At the MC2 Lab, we are also interested in cognitive ergonomics and Human-Computer Interaction.
EDUCATION
1993 PhD, Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
1988 BA (Diplomatura, 3 years) in Translation & Interpreting EUTI, Universidad de Granada
1985 BA (Licenciatura, 5 years) in Anglo–Germanic Philology, Facultad de Filología, Univ. Valencia
Further studies at the University of Nottingham, Ludwig–Maximilian Universität München and University of California, Santa Barbara.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2019 – today professor AMS Università di Bologna
2008 – 2019 assoc. professor & professor ULPGC
1996 – 2008 assistant & assoc. professor UGR
1994 – 1996 associate professor Univ. Vic
1993 – 1994 associate professor Univ. Vigo
1992 – 1993 lecturer CSU San Jose
TEACHING & TRAINING
Since 1993, Muñoz has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in several universities, mainly in Spain but also in other European countries, China, Mexico and the USA, especially on freelance translating, scientific & technical translation, literary translation, research methods and (empirical) translation theory, with a special focus on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies.
RESEARCH
Muñoz founded and directed the Reseach Group ‘Expertise & Environment in Translation’ (PETRA, Spanish acronym) between 2000 and 2018. He participated or led several research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry (Plan Nacional I+D+i). Muñoz also won a research contract from the publisher Planeta–DeAgostini to hire, lead and support the team of translators who rendered the second edition of UNESCO’s 8–volume Encyclopedia of Humanity (ISBN 9788467408737). As a member of the didactics research team Aula.int (University of Granada), he has contributed to many small competitive research projects on innovative translator training. Muñoz is the director of the Laboratory for Multilectal Mediated Communication & Cognition (MC2 Lab), co-founder and co-editor of the journal Translation, Cognition & Behavior and a member of the TREC and HAL international networks, and .
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Italy
- External evaluator for ANVUR
Spain
- 2011–today External evaluator for Spanish agencies (ANEP, AQU) and foreign universities
- 2005 Committee for the White Paper for undergrad Translation & Interpreting degrees
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 2011–2016, School of Translation & Interpreting, Research Committee
University of Granada
- 2004–2008 University’s Senate, member
UGR, School of Translation & Interpreting
- 2004–2008 Governing council, member
UGR, Department of Translation & Interpreting
- 2002–2005 Director, international PhD "Translation & Interpreting Processes"
- 1999–2004 Chair
- 1999–2001 Director, interdepartmental PhD "Language & Cognition"
University of Vigo
- 1993–1994, Vice Dean for Translation Studies
SCIENTIFIC BOARDS AND EDITORSHIPS
2023-today TransActions of the Bertinoro Translation Society, editorial board
2022-today The Journal of Specialized Translation (JosTrans), editorial board
2021-today 《语言、翻译与认知》[Studies in Language, Translation & Cognition], editorial board
2017–today Translation, Cognition & Behavior, co-founder and co-editor
2016–today Hermeneus, editorial board
2015–today CLINA, editorial board
2009–today Tradumàtica, editorial board
2011–2017 Translation Spaces, track editor, co–editor
FELLOWSHIPS
2018
Salvador de Madariaga fellowship
Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture & Sports
1991–1993
Lesley Bird Fellowship in Spanish
University of California, Berkeley
1988–1992
Regent’s Special Fellowship
University of California, Santa Barbara
OTHER
Member of AIETI and EST
ATA-accredited freelance translator in 1991
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