Frederic Chaume

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About Frederic Chaume

Frederic Chaume is a Full Professor of Audiovisual Translation at Universitat Jaume I (Spain), where he teaches audiovisual translation theory and translation and adaptation for dubbing; and Honorary Professor at University College London (UK), where he teaches translation and adaptation for voice-over and dubbing, Universidad Ricardo Palma (Perú) and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Perú). He also teaches regularly in MA and PhD programs at University College London (UK), Universidad de Granada (Spain), Universidad Europea de Valencia (Spain), Università di Torino (Italy), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), among others. He is the author (or coauthor) of eight books and has also coedited two books and four special journal issues (Textus, Perspectives, Prosopopeya, Translation Spaces). He is the director of the TRAMA book series (Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I), the first collection of monographs on audiovisual translation and media localization, and co-director of Language in the Digital Age (Peter Lang). Prof. Chaume has published over 100 articles, book chapters, and encyclopedic entries on audiovisual translation and has given numerous keynote lectures, seminars, and workshops on this topic in international translation studies conferences in the five continents. He has supervised or co-supervised 20+ PhD theses on the topic of audiovisual translation and some of them have received different Spanish and European awards. He is also in close contact with the industry, serves as a consultant for OTT platforms and AI localization companies, and has signed several research agreements with different stakeholders of the media localization sector. He coordinates the research group TRAMA and is the recipient of the Berlanga Award (2010), the Xènia Martínez Award (2016), and the Jan Ivarsson’s Award (2020) for his perseverant and enthusiastic support to media localization as well as his constant university training in this field.