Amparo Hurtado Albir

Amparo Hurtado Albir holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the ESIT of the Université Paris III, she is a French-Spanish translator and Professor emeritus of translation and interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She has been the principal investigator of the PACTE research group since its creation in 1997.

She has supervised 10 funded research projects about the didactics of translation, translation competence, as well as its acquisition, levels and evaluation. In recent years she has been the principal investigator of the NACT  (Establishing Competence Levels in the Acquisition of Translation Competence), EFFORT (Towards a European Framework of reference for Translation) and EACT(Evaluation in the Acquisition of Translation Competence)  projects.

She is the author of over 150 publications about translation theory, the didactics of translation and translation competence, including La notion de fidélité en traduction (1990); Enseñar a traducir (1999); Traducción y Traductología (2001; 2022, 13^th ed.); Aprender a traducir del francés al español. (2015); Researching Translation Competence by PACTE Group (ed., 2017); Hacia un marco europeo de niveles de competencias en traducción. El proyecto NACT del grupo PACTE / Towards a European Framework of competence levels in translation. The NACT project by PACTE group (ed. with P. Rodríguez-Inés, 2022); and Translation as a Cognitive Activity (with F. Alves, 2025). Her publications include articles in Meta, ACROSS, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, TTR (Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction), Perspectives, Onomazein, MonTI, etc. She is also director of the Aprender a traducir series.