Laura Andrea González Figueroa
Laura Andrea González Figueroa works as a graduate research and teaching assistant at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. After completing her MA in dialogue interpreting (University of Vienna), she was involved in the EU-WEBPSI project covering the topic of Languages of Limited Diffusion (LLD), and also works as a freelance interpreter for Spanish, English, German, and Portuguese.
Under supervision from Prof. Sonja Pöllabauer, her doctoral thesis focuses on interpreting for migrants in Colombia, focusing on those migrants passing through the country on their way north. Her research interests include Indigenous languages, LLD, Latin America, and decolonial studies.