Visiting Fellow, 2011

Sofía is interested in aspects of communication and languages in multicultural societies. She is currently writing a dissertation on public policy and community interpreting (the oral translation of messages when linguistic barriers are present in public institutions and community settings). The aim of her dissertation is to analyze the mechanisms which control the way and the extent to which intercultural communication enters the political agenda. As a central element to social interaction, language is instrumentalized in different ways by public and private actors in our societies to respond to different needs. What space is left for the key communicative role of language and its implication for the access to basic rights by allophone members of society is what motivates Sofía’s current research.

Her academic interests include interpreting studies, immigration policies, multiculturalism, language planning and policy, identity politics and critical discourse analysis.

Sofía is a PhD fellow at the IGOP (Institut de Governs i Polítiques Públiques, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain). She holds an M.A. in Social and Political Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an Honors B.A. in Translation and Interpreting Studies with a triple qualification from the University of Granada, Aix-Marseille University and Northumbria University.

phone number: 416 978 6301

e-mail: sofia.garcia@uab.es