ElizabethRoMa

Elizabeth Rosales Martínez was born in Mexico City where she graduated in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM (2017). She studied an MA in Translation Studies at University College Cork (2020), Ireland.

Since 2022, Elizabeth is a doctoral researcher in Translation and Latin American Studies at UCC. She is currently an awardee of the Irish Research Council Fellow under the Andrew Grene Postgraduate Scholarship in Conflict Resolution. Her current research involves translating stories of people searching for victims of enforced disappearance in Mexico. Her interests include collaborative methods of translation, ethics of care, queer pedagogies and creative translation practices.  

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As an artist, she specializes in graphic and pictorial media, as well as art installations. In her work she explores themes of identity, body, violence and language.

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Elizabeth is also a co-researcher and co-founder of the project Trans/Actions. Translation as activism: a community-driven project aimed at creating a space for exchange around translation, activism and creative practice in Ireland.