Department: Arts and Humanities Department

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: GRIAL Interuniversity research group in linguistic applications

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Email: amoralesmore@uoc.edu

Personal web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertmoralesmoreno/

Doctor by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the thesis Estudi lexicomètric del vocabulari del procés d'aprovació de l'Estatut d'Autonomia de Catalunya (2006) 2015. Supervised by Dr. María Teresa Cabré, Dr. Carmen Pineira Tresmontant.

Albert Morales Moreno holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting (with a major in Legal and Economic Translation) and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). He also completed a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Sciences (summa cum laude) at the same institution in 2015 under the supervision of Maria Teresa Cabré Castellví (UPF) and Carmen Pineira-Tresmontant (Université d’Artois). Albert began his professional career as a high school foreign language teacher in Barcelona and Chicago. Between 2010 and 2018, he taught language, literature, professional writing and translation at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Since 2008, he is an accredited sworn translator (English-Spanish) for the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also experience (especially in legal translation) with private clients, translation agencies and government organizations. He has also cooperated with the IULATERM, Observatori de Neologia, CoTraLis and GIAT research groups. Between 2018 and 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva’s FTI "Legal Translation in International Institutional Settings: Scope, Strategies and Quality Markers" (LETRINT) project (PI: Fernando Prieto Ramos). In 2022, he joined the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya as a full-time tenured lecturer and researcher. He currently teaches modules on Linguistics, Catalan language and Translation both in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. His research focuses on terminology, neology, legislative discourse, legal translation, discourse analysis and language teaching. Working languages: Spanish (A), Catalan (A), English (B), French (B), Italian (B).