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Carlos Sanz Mingo

Dr Carlos Sanz Mingo

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Translation Studies

School of Modern Languages

Email
MingoCS@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74145
Campuses
66a Park Place, Room 1.01, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3AS
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Overview

After achieving my degree in Literary Theory and Criticism in the University of Valladolid (Spain), I took my doctorate courses and wrote my Masters Dissertation about modern Arthurian Literature, focusing my study on a British author, Bernard Cornwell. I have written my PhD thesis on the trilogy The Warlord Chronicles by the aforementioned author.

I have been teaching Spanish as a foreign language since 1998, when I first came to Wales to work as an assistant at a secondary school. I have been teaching for Cardiff University since 2001. Spanish Language (at various levels), Spanish Literature and History and Spanish Cinema are some of the courses I have offered throughout these years.

I started working for the School of European Languages, Translation and Politics 2004.

Co-ordination duties

  • Module Coordinator of Introduction to Specialised Translation (BA in Translation)
  • Module Coordinator of The World and Language of Business (Spanish)  (BA in Spanish) 
  • Module Coordinator of Second Language Acquisition  of the MA Programme

 

School Roles

 

  • Incoming Exchange Students Officer.
  • Director of Externally Focused Language Provision 

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Research

Research Interests

  • Arthurian Literature
  • The Middle Ages
  • Language Paedagogy

Teaching

Office Hours 2023-2024

  • Mondays 15.30-16.30.
  • Tuesdays 12.30-13.30

Undergraduate 2023-2024

Year 1 module: Understanding Hispanidad in a Global Context
  • Spain and the Iberian Peninsula
  • Spain and Europe: the Middle Ages: the three cultures.
  • Spain and the world: Conquest and decline.
  • Spain, a Second Class Power in Europe (Politics and Society, 18th and 19th centuries).
Year 2 module: The World and Language of Business (Spanish)
Year 2 module: Introduction to Specialised Translation
  • Scientific and Technical Translation
  • Medical Translation
  • Literary Translation
Year 4 module: Spanish Grammar
  • Translation into Spanish
Year 4 module: Student Language Ambassador
  • Language mentor

Postgraduate

 
Module: Second Language Acquisition
Module: Scientific and Technical Translation
Module: Politics and Law Translation
Module: Translation of Minority Languages
  • The Basque language

Biography

After achieving my degree in Literary Theory and Criticism in the University of Valladolid (Spain), I took my doctorate courses and wrote my Masters Dissertation about modern Arthurian Literature, focusing my study on a British author, Bernard Cornwell. I have written my PhD thesis on the trilogy The Warlord Chronicles by the aforementioned author. I am interested in Medieval Literature and Culture, Neo-medievalism, Literature and Mythology, Literature and History, Comparative Literature and Literary Criticism, History of Language and the diachronic and synchronic study of Languages.

I am currently co-supervising a PhD in Spain on the topic of reception of the Arthurian tradition in Europe and another on the production of contemporary Arthurian texts in Spain.

Professional memberships

  • Medium Ævum (The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature)
  • CLYTIAR (Arthurian Culture, Literature and Translation in the Iberian Peninsula)
  • International Arthurian Society (British branch)

Supervisions

Current research supervision

Almudena Gómez Seoane, PhD thesis “Caracterización y función de los personajes femeninos en diferentes manifestaciones de las leyendas artúricas: Estudio comparativo e interdisciplinar " (with Dr. Margarita Estevez Saá, University of Santiago de Compostela).

Specialisms

  • Medieval literature
  • Translation
  • Iberian languages