Maria Calzada Perez is a lecturer in translation and English at Jaume I University (Castellon, Spain). She studied at the University of Granada and the University of Essex and completed her Ph.D. at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK). She is author of La aventura de la traduccion: Dos monologos de Alan Bennett (2001), a book on translating Alan Bennett's Talking Heads; she is editor of Apropos of Ideology: Translation Studies on Ideology/Ideologies in Translation Studies (2003).