*** Translator, Editor, and Proofreader ***

Freelance since June 1992

• Translates, edits, and proofreads documents from Spanish to English and from Catalan to English. Edits documents from French to English. Includes back-translations and cultural adaptation
• Specializes in biomedical topics, especially public health, cancer, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. Projects included research articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals, theses, medical records, patient questionnaires, and popularized health communication
• Has also completed projects in additional areas, including technology and hospitality
• Consultations for written interpretations of Spanish financial and medical documents for American and British clients for tax preparation and bureaucracy

*** Researcher ***

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; since 2017

• Researching health communication in collaboration with a research group at Semmelweis University's Institute of Languages for Specific Purposes
• Researched comprehensibility and cross-cultural adaptation of multilingual health communication texts for the thesis, which was successfully defended in October 2023. Focused on writer-reader relationship and technicality of vocabulary in English, Spanish, and Catalan translated and non-translated texts
• Researcher-in-training until 2024, now Collaborator in research group GEDIT, which forms a part of TraDiLex

  • Contributed to group research project Mufitav/Trafilm. Emphasized the treatment of a third language in the process of subtitling from the source language to multiple target languages

  • Consultant for research project UNIVAC, which assessed current accessibility for students and researchers with auditory and visual disabilities at Spanish universities

  • Collaborating with a TraDiLex colleague on research focusing on methodology for teaching EFL for deaf and hard of hearing

  • Managed the development of the TraDiLex website and maintains the GEDIT website

  • Developed project management skills by, for example, acquiring and organizing resources, including software for qualitative and mixed analyses (CAQDAS, e.g., MAXQDA) and statistical analysis (R and SPSS)

  • Gained grant writing experience. Was selected as recipient for the AGAUR-FI grant three times, and for the Joan Oró pre/postdoc grant

Book chapter. Will be published in 2025. Inclusivity in non-translated and translated English, Spanish, and Catalan health information websites on HIV and TB diagnostic testing. Discourses of Inclusive and Exclusionary Health Communication. Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group).

Scientific paper. 2024. Cross-cultural adaptation of the writer-reader relationship in
non-translated and translated English health information websites on HIV and TB
diagnostic testing. Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios
Ingleses. Universidad de Alicante. 41, pp.199-219.

Scientific paper. Amy Dara Hochberg. 2023. Writer-reader relationship in multilingual
health information websites on HIV and TB diagnostic testing: features of non-translated
and translated Catalan texts in comparison with non-translated and translated English
and Spanish texts. SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation. 16-2, pp.64-87. ISSN
1336-7811.

Interview. Lisa A. Goldstein. 2022. From Yoga Teacher to Multilingual Health
Translator. Volta Voices. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing.

Scientific paper. Amy Dara Hochberg. 2021. Analyzing pragmatic determinants in
multilingual health communication. Selected Papers from the 29th European Systemic
Functional Linguistics Conference 2019. Politecnico de Leiria & CELGA-ILTEC da
Universidade de Coimbra. ISBN 978-989-8797-71-1.

Popular science article. Amy Dara Hochberg. 2017. Los beneficios del yoga durante y
después del cáncer. SportLife.