Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff

Profile

Biography

I joined the Department of Language and Linguistic Science in 2022. Originally from Uruguay, I have lived and worked in Spain, Norway, Andorra, and the UK. My international background informs my interests in language, culture and intercultural communication. I completed an MPhil in English Linguistics and Language Acquisition at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), followed by a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies (2018-2021) at the University of Manchester.

My interdisciplinary research focuses on translation, technology and society, with particular interests in volunteer translation, machine translation, corpus-based studies and the societal dimensions of human-machine interaction. I also have research interests in legal translation, emerging AI technologies, and gender and cultural bias in translation and AI.

Before joining York, I was Interim Programme Director of the MA in Translation at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Manchester. Throughout my career, I have also collaborated with UK and international institutions, including London Metropolitan University, the University of Oslo and Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

Alongside my academic work, I am a sworn translator accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Translation: Methodology and Practice - LAN00130H 

Postgraduate

• Translation Theory and Practice - LAN00116M
• Independent Project - LAN00122M
• Professional Translation Practice - LAN00118M

Career

• University of York
  (2022-2024) Associate Lecturer in Spanish Translation
  (2024-2026) Associate Lecturer in Translation Studies
  (from 2026) Lecturer in Translation Studies
  Leader for the MA in Translation and Applied Technologies
  Leader for the PhD in Translation and Interpreting
  Chair of the EDI Committee

• The Open University (2022-2026)
  Associate Lecturer in Translation Studies (Spanish and Translation Technologies)

• University of Manchester (2023-2024)
  Lecturer in Translation Studies

• Goldsmiths, University of London (2021-2022)
  Associate Lecturer in Translation Studies
  Interim Programme Director of MA in Translation

• University of Oslo (2021-2024)
  Affiliate/Visiting Scholar (Oslo Medical Corpus)

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2017-2018)
  Teaching and Research Assistant

Memberships

Memberships

• FCIL – Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
• APTIS (Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting, UK & Ireland)
• SFHEA – Senior Fellow of Advance HE (former Higher Education Academy)

PhD supervision

PhD supervision

Alnmer, Samar. "A Systematic Evaluation of NMT systems and LLMs in English-Arabic Academic Translation" (main co-supervisor, 2024-in progress).

Following the launch of the PhD programme in Translation and Interpreting Studies, I am happy to co-supervise projects that examine translation practices and new technologies. I am also interested in legal translation, translation theory, corpus-based methodologies, LLMs, volunteer translation, and crowdsourcing.

Publications

Publications

• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2026). Technology-driven changes in the UK legal translation market: a practice-based study of NMT and its impact on freelance translators’ workflow. Perspectives, 1-18. 
• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2026). Critical Discourse Analysis. ENTI: Encyclopaedia of Translation and Interpreting. AIETI: Iberian Association for Translation and Interpreting Studies.
• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2025). Chuan Yu. Online Collaborative Translation in China and Beyond: Community, Practice, and Identity. Routledge, 2022, 166 p. TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction, 38(2), 333-337.
• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. & Terribile, S. (2025). Translation Technology and Human-Machine Interaction. In Baumgarten, S. & Tieber, M. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society. London, Routledge. 
• Singer, N. & Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2024). Mind the Gap! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of solidarity among Ibero-American female translators in the Spanish Wikipedia. The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, 16(2).
• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2022). Assessing the impact of translation guidelines in Wikipedia: a praxeological approach to the study of documented standards across four language communities. Translation Spaces, 11(2).
• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2021). Translation in Wikipedia: A Praxeological Study of Normativity, Negotiation and Automation across Four Language Communities (Doctoral thesis, The University of Manchester).
• Góngora-Goloubintseff, J. G. (2020). The Falklands/Malvinas war taken to the Wikipedia realm: a multimodal discourse analysis of cross-lingual violations of the Neutral Point of View. Palgrave Communications, 6(1), 1-9.