Sofía Monzón Rodríguez

Biography

Sofía Monzón Rodríguez is Assistant Professor of Translation and Interpreting and Co-Director of the Translation and Interpretation Program at Utah State University. Her research examines translation as a social practice, with particular attention to relational and affect-based approaches, translation history, censorship, and translation/interpreting pedagogy. She is the author of Translation, Affect, and Censorship: The Production, Circulation, and Reception of Transgressive Novels in Late Francoism (Routledge, forthcoming) and co-editor of Affect in Translation and Interpreting (Leuven University Press, 2026). Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Babel and Mutatis Mutandis, as well as edited volumes with presses including Palgrave Macmillan, John Benjamins, and Comares.

Dr. Monzón’s research and teaching are shaped by her ongoing practice as a literary translator and creative writer. She is the Spanish translator of Jane Austen’s Complete Poems / Poesía completa (Valparaíso, 2025) and Sharon Olds’s One Secret Thing / Una cosa secreta (Valparaíso, forthcoming). Her poetry collections Los afectos multilingües (Valparaíso, 2024) and Alas (Editorial Club Universitario, 2019) have been recognized in Spain through prizes and shortlists, and her literary translations have also appeared in venues including Exchanges and The Polyglot Magazine.

Dr. Monzón directs Aggie Translators & Interpreters, a volunteer collective of trained student interpreters that supports language access and community partnerships across Northern Utah. Through her teaching and service, she develops experiential and service-learning opportunities that connect students with real-world language access needs in legal, educational, and community settings.