Daniel Cabeza-Campillo

About

I am a PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick. My doctoral project, funded by the SMLC Doctoral Scholarship, is supervised by Dr Olga Castro and Dr Tom WhittakerLink opens in a new window. I am also a Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies.

Prior to coming to the University of Warwick, I was a Career Development Fellow (CDF) in Spanish at the University of Oxford, teaching Spanish language, oral skills, writing skills, grammar and translation as part of the BA in Modern Languages. I also worked as a Research Assistant on the Digital Humanities project COMUN-ESLink opens in a new window (Comunidad de Investigadores del Español) and I was an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Spanish Language TeachingLink opens in a new window, a peer-reviewed journal specialised in the teaching and learning of Spanish as a foreign language. I have taught in both the 7-week immersive summer programme and the graduate programme at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA).

Research

PhD Thesis Title: Discursive (Re)construction of Brexit through Metaphor Translation in British and Spanish News Media (2016-2022).

My doctoral project aims to provide an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of how Brexit-related metaphors have been translated in the news from English into Spanish (BBC News and BBC News Mundo, The Guardian and elDiario.es) and Spanish into English (El País and El País English Edition) from 2016 to 2022.

Research interests

Translation Studies; News Translation; Metaphor Studies; Critical Discourse Analysis; Spanish Language.

Publications

Muñoz-Basols, Javier and Daniel Cabeza-Campillo. 2026. "Metaphor as ideological gatekeeping: translating sovereignty in English–Spanish news coverage of the Gibraltar dispute." Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice: 1-21. Open Access ArticleLink opens in a new window

Cabeza-Campillo, Daniel. 2026. "The Rhetoric of Leave and Remain." Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) Bulletin: 19-20. Article WeblinkLink opens in a new window

Book review

Cabeza-Campillo, Daniel. 2024. "Muñoz-Basols, Javier, Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez, and Luis Cerezo (eds.). 2024. La enseñanza del español mediada por tecnología. De la justicia social a la Inteligencia Artificial (IA). London and New York: Routledge." Porta Linguarum. International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning 42: 337-339. Article WeblinkLink opens in a new window

Conferences and events

University of York. 2026. "Brexit in News Translation: Critical Metaphor Analysis in British and Spanish News Media." Department of Language and Linguistic Science ColloquiumLink opens in a new window

University of Warwick. 2025. "(Re)construction of Media Narratives of Brexit through Metaphor Translation." The 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and InterpretingLink opens in a new window

Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara (Italy). 2025. "Translation of Brexit-related Metaphors in the Media: Findings from a Bilingual Corpus." International Conference on Cognition and the MediaLink opens in a new window

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). 2025. "Corpus Approaches to the Translation of Brexit-related Metaphors in Media Discourse." II International Conference on PhD Research about TranslationLink opens in a new window

Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). 2023. Workshop: "Traducción del discurso mediático sobre Gibraltar: metáforas conceptuales y su aplicabilidad a la enseñanza del español." XI Jornadas Internacionales para la Pedagogía del Español como L2.

Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). 2022. Workshop: "Amor entre culturas: la traducción de metáforas conceptuales en la enseñanza de español LE/L2." X Jornadas Internacionales para la Pedagogía del Español como L2.

Scholarships and awards

SMLC Doctoral Scholarship (2022-2026)

Teaching experience

2026-Present. Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies (University of Warwick)

2021-2026. Spanish Language Faculty (7-week immersive summer programme & graduate programme) (Middlebury College, USA)

2025-2026. Graduate Teaching Assistant (University of Warwick)

2025. Visiting Lecturer in Spanish (University of Oxford)

2022-2023. Teaching Associate in Translation Studies with Spanish (Aston University)

2019-2022. Career Development Fellow in Spanish (University of Oxford)

2018-2019. Spanish Evening Tutor (University of East Anglia)

Qualifications

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (issued 18/10/2021)

MA in Applied Translation Studies (University of East Anglia, 2018)

BA in Translation, Media and Modern Languages (University of East Anglia, 2016)

Memberships

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the UK (ELEUK)

Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)

Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE)

Chartered Institute of Linguistics (CIOL)

Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)