Coventry/Nantes: two sides of the same COIL in the negotiation of translation strategies

Dr Victoria Ríos Castaño is Lecturer in Spanish at Coventry University. Her main fields of research lie in early colonial Latin America and contemporary Latin American literature. She has taught Spanish in several institutions, including the Instituto Cervantes (Berlin), Potsdam Universität, Newcastle University, and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Ulster. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a qualified DELE (Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera) Examiner. She has been involved in COIL projects since 2022 with the Université Catholique de l’Ouest Nantes and the Sorbonne Université (France). She has published in her fields of research interests: eg: essays in Bulletin of Latin American Research, The Translator, and The Americas.

Mrs Carlota Medina-Díaz is Assistant Lecturer in Spanish at Coventry University, UK. She holds a PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages and a Postgraduate Diploma for Research in Hispanic studies from the University of Warwick, funded by a university scholarship award. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a qualified DELE (Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera) examiner. She is interested in the affective, creative and emotional side of language learning, especially using narrative, art and music in order to overcome barriers and cultures. Her teaching includes Spanish language and translation, Business Spanish and languages through foreign policy issues. She has been involved in COIL with Dr Rios Castaño since 2022.