Aline Ferreira

Aline Ferreira is an Associate Professor of Linguistics (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) at the University of California Santa Barbara and the director of  Bilingualism, Translation, and Cognition Laboratory. She was the director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the same institution from 2021 to 2023. Ferreira is the coeditor of several books, including “The Handbook of Translation and Cognition” (Wiley-Blackwell), “Psycholinguistic and cognitive inquiries into translation and interpreting” (John Benjamins Publishing), and “The Development of Translation Competence: Theories and Methodologies from Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). She has published studies in journals and books such as Translation and Interpreting Studies (John Benjamins Publishing), Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics (John Benjamins Publising), Reading and Writing (Springer), The Routledge handbook of translation and linguistics (Routledge), Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (John Benjamins Publishing), Cognitive control and consequences of multilingualism, (John Benjamins Publishing), and Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (among others). Furthermore, Dr. Ferreira possesses an M.A. in Psychology, and she works as a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.