Maria D. Oltra holds a degree and a PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the Jaume I University and currently works as a Permanent Professor in the Department of Translation and Communication at the same university, where she teaches or has taught courses in general, Catalan, audiovisual, and literary translation (English, French, Spanish, and Catalan), and translation theory. She has over twenty years of experience as a professional translator and language consultant in various fields. She specializes in literary translation and audiovisual translation (dubbing and subtitling), and has collaborated with various companies, publishing houses, newspapers and magazines, dubbing studios, TV channels, and digital platforms. Her research focuses primarily on the study of the translation of phraseological units in literature and film, translation research based on electronic corpora, oral translation, the study of the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis (GPH), the analysis of linguistic models in translations, and translation didactics, among others.

Among her works, the monograph La traducció de les unitats fraseològiques en la literatura i el cinema. Model d’anàlisi i nous horitzons per a la investigació (Tirant Lo Blanch, in press) stands out. She is also the author of several articles published in journals such as Caplletra, MonTI, Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación o Hermenēus, and several chapters in collective volumes published by publishers such as John Benjamins, Peter Lang, and Tirant Lo Blanch. She has also translated more than thirty films for dubbing, in various language combinations, as well as hundreds of chapters of fiction and animation series and documentaries. Her translations include films such as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, 12 Years A Slave, Green Book, Outbreak, The Birdcage, Grumpy Old Men, All The King’s Men, Un bonheur n’arrive jamais seul, Une heure de tranquillité, La traversée de Paris, Les yeux sans visage or Una vita violenta; sèries com Liar, Justice, Sygeplejeskolen (The New Nurses) or Il Paradiso delle Signore; animation series such as The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Winx Club, The Fairly OddParents, Hamtaro o Animalia; and numerous BBC and National Geographic documentaries.