Biography
Dr Marta Ortega Sáez is a Serra Húnter Programme Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies at the University of Barcelona, Spain, where she teaches courses in English Literature. Her research focuses on the reception of 19th- and 20th-century English-language women writers during the Franco dictatorship from 1939 to 1975. Dr Ortega Sáez studies the influence of censorship from a gender perspective, examining the Spanish translations of authors such as the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Rosamond Lehmann, Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Margaret Mitchell. She also specialises in the life and work of Juan G. de Luaces, one of the most prolific translators of the first two decades of the Franco regime.