Martha Celis Mendoza
Universidad Iberoamericana
Mexico City
Martha Celis-Mendoza (Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana) is a lecturer and translator; she holds a PhD. in Hispanic Literatures and an MA in Translation, both from El Colegio de México, and a BA in English from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a dissertation on the importance of music in Tolkien’s works. She is the head of the Translation Diploma Program at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where she teaches Translation and Comparative Literature. She has written articles about Translation Studies, women translators, Mexican 20th Century writers, detective fiction, Shakespeare and JRR Tolkien.