Alba Milà Garcia

Alba Milà-Garcia holds a PhD in Translation and Language Sciences by Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2017). Previously, she obtained her degree in Translation and Interpreting (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and the Master’s in Training of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language (Universitat de Barcelona - Universitat Pompeu Fabra). She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

She focuses on three main research areas: pragmatics (especifically speech acts, politeness and face), digital discourse and neology. She is a member of the research group TraDiLex, where she participates in projects such as Neómetro and Lexical, and she collaborates with the Observatori de Neologia with the digital resource Neolosfera. She has also participated in projects such as ECODAL (Evaluación de la competencia discursiva de aprendices adultos purilingües: detección de necesidades formativas y pautas para un aprendizaje autónomo).

She has taught at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, in both the Translation and Interpreting and the Applied Languages degrees, since academic year 2013-2014. Her subjects include Editing and Proofreading, Catalan Language, Compared Use of Catalan, Introduction to Interpreting and Spanish and TFG. She has also taught in the Master’s in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Master’s on Discourse Studies. At the same time, she has also taught undergraduate and master’s courses at Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelonala, Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Finally, during the academic year 2022-2023 she was awarded the càtedra Marià Villangómez d’Estudis Catalans at Universität Leipzig.

In the professional context, she has combined her research and teaching with a career as a translator, proofreader and typesetter, and from April 2023 to December 2024 she worked at Idiomes UPF as a language specialist.