Frederic Chaume Varela

Researcher, Jaume I University

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), Universidad Ricardo Palma (Perú) and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Perú). He is author of eight books and has also co edited two books and three special journal issues (Textus, Perspectives, Prosopopeya). 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.

Prof. Chaume has published over 100 articles, book chapters and encyclopedic entries on audiovisual translation and has given numerous keynote lectures on this topic in international translation studies conferences and in several European, Asian and American universities. He also teaches regularly in some of them (University College London-UK, Universidad de Granada-Spain, Università di Torino-Italy, among others). 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 Netflix 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 constant and enthusiastic support to media localization as well as his constant university training in this field.