Director of the Anderson Centre
Dr Lorna Shaughnessy is a lecturer in Spanish in the University of Galway. She co-ordinates the MA Programmes in Translation and Spanish, delivers a module on literary translation and supervises MA dissertations on Translation Studies. She is a published translator, with four collections of Mexican and Spanish poetry in translation, and has collaborated in three anthologies of Irish and Galician poetry. Her translations of Spanish and Mexican poetry have been published in a range of poetry journals including Poetry London, Asymptote and Cyphers. In 2018, she founded the International Research Group Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation (Moore Institute). She has published four collections of poetry and her work has been translated into Italian, Galician and Spanish. Other academic publications include a series of articles on the reception of Classical Greek mythology in Hispanic Literatures.
Email me: lorna.shaughnessy@universityofgalway.ie
