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IULA MOURNS THE DEATH OF IRINA KOSTINA

03.02.2023

 

Professor Irina Kostina of the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) passed away on January 10, 2023, after a long illness.

Born in Ukraine, her academic career spanned over 20 years at the School of Language Sciences of this Colombian university, where she participated in the design of the master's degree in Interlinguistic and Intercultural Studies and where she founded the translation and terminology research group TRADUTERM. In university management, she was postgraduate coordinator and director of the undergraduate degree program in foreign languages.

Irina Kostina came to Catalonia in 1998 to pursue doctoral studies in translation, specifically at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She and her colleague and friend, Mercedes Suárez, soon realized that terminology was the subject that motivated them and approached the University Institute for Applied Linguistics, where in the summer of 1999 they attended the Summer School in Terminology and the International Symposium on Terminology, which followed. She moved her PhD file to the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Teresa Cabré. After a period of interruption due to teaching duties in Colombia, Irina Kostina returned to Barcelona to defend her doctoral thesis: Irina Kostina (2010). La variación conceptual de los términos en el discurso especializado (The conceptual variation of terms in specialized discourse). Spain: Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA). Accessible at: http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/7513

Her integration with the IULATERM research group led her to participate in the edition of the book M. Teresa Cabré, Mercè Lorente and Carles Tebé (ed.) (2001). Textos de terminólogos de la Escuela Rusa (Texts of terminologists of the Russian School) [Translations by Manuel Barreiro, Delia Vázquez and Irina Kostina]. Barcelona: Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada. She also participated in some of the group's research projects.

For the whole IULA community it has been a deeply felt loss. We will never forget you.

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