Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo is an associate professor in English Language and Linguistics and Translation at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He teaches in the BA in English Studies and the MA in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication (MLINACI) at UCM. He served as Director and Coordinator of the MLINACI for five years. Since May 2022, he has been the Deputy Director of the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature at the UCM. His research and publications focus on corpus linguistics, audiovisual translation studies, and particularly on linguistic accessibility (subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, and audio description for the blind). He has published numerous articles in academic journals, book chapters, and several books on translation and audiovisual translation studies—including the book Aspectos lingüísticos de la traducción audiovisual (TAV), published by Peter Lang. He has been a member of the UCM research groups Application of Information and Communication Technologies to Translation (940989) and Research Group on Literary Translation (970625), as well as of the TransMedia Catalonia Research Group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he has also taught in the European Online Master in Audiovisual Translation (METAV). He is the Directo and the Principal Investigator (PI) of the UCM research group Translation, Audiovisual Translation (TAV), and Linguistic Accessibility (TRADAVAL) (970828). He has been Director and Principal Investigator of several UCM Teaching Innovation Projects for a number of years. He has given lectures at various Spanish and European universities and institutions and has held several research fellowships at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Imperial College London (UK). In 2018, he carried out a research stay at the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS), University College London (UCL), with a José Castillejo Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. In 2024, he completed a research stay at the University of Verona (Italy). In October 2025, his latest book — Accessibilità audiovisiva e inclusione: prospettive socioculturali — co-edited with researchers from Italian universities, was published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. He has also recently published several research works (articles in specialized journals and book chapters) on audiovisual translation, linguistic accessibility, inclusion, legislation and standards, and cinema. He was recently appointed as a member of the ISO Standards Committee on Accessibility and of the Spanish Standardization Agency (AENOR) for the UNE standards on accessibility. In April 2025, he was appointed as a board member, representing the UCM, on the commission for the revision of the UNE 153010:2012 Standard on Subtitling for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People.