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Lucy Leite
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KudoZ activity (PRO) PRO-level points: 232, Questions answered: 158, Questions asked: 31
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Glossaries Arts, Geral, IT, Marketing
Translation education Bachelor's degree - UNIBERO
Experience Years of experience: 23. Registered at ProZ.com: Sep 2007. Became a member: Apr 2008.
Credentials Spanish to Portuguese (UNIBERO)
English to Portuguese (UNIBERO, verified)
Memberships ASETRAD
Software Adobe Acrobat, IBM CAT tool, memoQ, MemSource Cloud, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, SDLX, Trados Studio



Website https://braziliantranslator.wordpress.com
CV/Resume CV available upon request
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Bio

Recent published translations:

- Eliot, George. "Traducciones y traductores", in El Coloquio de los Perros. (2022)

- Eliot, George. "Adam Bede", Ediciones Cátedra. (2020)

- Huxley, Thomas H. "Ciencia y cultura [Science and Culture]", in "¿Por qué los clásicos?", Ed. Javier Alcoriza. (2018)

Recent published paper:

- "Del exilio a la estetización del desarraigo: Un análisis comparativo de 'Americanah' y 'Ghana Must Go'", en Actio Nova - Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, 2018, (2), 133-163 (here). 


Previous experience:

QA tester for a major Telecom corporation, testing on HP Quality Center, reporting bugs on Redmine and fixing SLDX ITD. - Prague (2010)

External Consultant for Delnet Programme of the International Training Centre of the ILO (International Labor Organization) – Turin, Italy (2001 - 2006)

Some other books I've translated:

- Hernandez, José. "Operação Valkíria". Novo Século. (2008)

- Cattani, David (et al). "Dicionário Internacional da Outra Economia". Almedina. (2009)

- Coraggio, José Luis (org). “Contribuciones Lationoamericanas a la Economía Solidaria”. UNGS and Altamira Publishing Houses, Buenos Aires. (2007) 

- Olsteen, Joel. “Só Depende de Você”(from Scriptures and Meditations for you Best Life now). Larousse. (2007)

- Veronese, Marília Verísimo (org). “Economia solidaria y subjetividad”. UNGS and Altamira Publishing Houses. Buenos Aires. (2007) 

- Cattani, Antonio D..“La otra Economía”, Editorial Altamira, Buenos Aires. (2004)


As a Researcher in Social Sciences, I have published the following book:


- Yo quiero tener un millón de amigos. Capital social en Facebook y Orkut. [I want to have a million friends. Social capital in Facebook and Orkut]. Available here


And the following papers on academic journals:

- "A las vueltas con la alfabetización visual: lenguaje y significado en las películas de Wes Anderson" (Dealing with visual literacy: language and meaning in Wes Anderson's films"). In: Revista I/C - Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, 2008, 5, pp-248-287. Available at: Revista I/C - Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación



- "A visão e o olhar: A Janela da Alma e a apresentação da subjetividade" (Sight and Look: The window of the soul and the presentation of subjectivity). In: revista Fronteiras – estudos midiáticos X(1): 29-35, jan/abr 2008. Available at: Revista Fronteiras - estudos midiáticos


- “O intelectual aprisionado” (The Captive Intellectual). Available at: Revista Germina Literatura



- “Hacia la definición de un isomorfismo periférico” (Towards the definition of a peripheral isomorphism), with Pablo Forni. Revista Sociologias, n° 16, jul-dez 2006, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Available at: Scielo


- “La confianza en la economía popular: el caso de Nodo Astral” (Trust in popular economy: the case of Astral Barter Club), with Lucrecia Barreiro, published in the book “Caminos Solidarios de la Economía Argentina”, organized by Floreal Forni, Ediciones Ciccus, Buenos Aires, 2004.



- “Cambios en los flujos laborales (1998/1999 y 2001/2002)” (Changes in labor flows) Available at: IDICSO's online publications or ASET


Academic background


2017 - MA in Compared Literature - Universidad de Murcia - Spain


1999 – 2004 BA in Sociology – Universidad del Salvador – Buenos Aires, Argentina.

07/2003 to 10/2003 Specialization Course: “Civil Society and the Third Sector”, at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) – Buenos Aires, Argentina.


1993 – 1997 BA in Languages - Translation and Interpretation (English) at Universidade Ibero-Americana – São Paulo, Brazil.

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Total pts earned: 260
PRO-level pts: 232


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