About

Belén Rodríguez Salvatierra is a PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research is supervised by Dr Olga CastroLink opens in a new window and Dr Caroline SummersLink opens in a new window, and funded by the Chancellor’s International Scholarship.

Research

Her doctoral project studies literary works of fiction in translation by Chilean contemporary women writers published in English in the U.S. and the UK between 2013 and 2023. Applying a decolonial and feminist perspective, she aims to both investigate the authors’ representation in the English-language literary market and to analyse the barriers they face when trying to enter this industry.

Research Interests

• Feminist Translation Studies
• Women Writers in Translation
• Literary Translation
• Children's Literature

Teaching

2022-present. Lecturer for the Postgraduate Certificate in Literary Translation (Diplomado en Traducción LiterariaLink opens in a new window) at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Academic Publications

Goellner, Letícia & Rodríguez Salvatierra, Belén, ‘Clásicos de la literatura infantojuvenil latinoamericana y su traducción: una revisión de Reinações de Narizinho y Papelucho desde una perspectiva traductológica feminista’, Universum, 39.2 (2024), pp. 599-618, doi:10.4067/S0718-23762024000200599

Other Publications

Almeida, Júlia Lopes de, Damas y doncellas: una mirada feminista de fines del siglo XIX, trans. by Letícia Goellner and Belén Rodríguez Salvatierra (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2024)

Scholarships and Awards

Chancellor’s International Scholarship, University of Warwick, 2024-2028.

National Master Scholarship, Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), 2021-2023.

Qualifications

MA in Translation at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2023.

Translation and Interpreting Degree at Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación – UNIACC, 2019.

Memberships

• Feminist Translation Network