Carmen Pena-Díaz is a translation Professor at the Department of Modern Philology at Alcalá University (Madrid, Spain). She has previously taught at Vigo University (Spain) and at Louisiana State University (USA). Her research areas are intercultural communication and translation & interpreting. She is a member of the FITISPos-UAH research group in Spain, which research training on Public Service Translation and Interpreting. She has led various nationally accredited research projects, such as “InterMed” and “Intercomsalud” on interlingual and intercultural mediation in health settings, and the ERASMUS+ “Dialogos” which addresses the communication barriers of migrants with languages of lesser diffusion. She has also participated in many other European and national projects. She is the director of the European Public Service Intercultural Communication, Translating and Interpreting Master's Degree at Alcalá University.
Carmen has published chapters in books such as Declerq & Federici’s “Intercultural Crisis Communication” edited by Bloomsbury and written articles in international journals such as MonTI, Intercultural Education, Babel, Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, among many others. She has reviewed articles and books for META, MonTI and other impact international journals.