Meagan Carter, M.A.

A Virginia native, Meagan Carter graduated from George Mason University with her B.FA. in Spanish in 2016. She moved to Bogotá, Colombia, and served as an English Teaching Assistant for the Fulbright Program at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá Campus) during the 2017-2018 academic year. She returned to the U.S. in 2018 to start her M.A./Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Meagan is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB. She completed her M.A. in Spanish at UCSB in 2020 and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation. Her research focuses on Translation Process Research, vicarious trauma, and translation and cognition. Meagan is a TA of beginner-level and intermediate-level Spanish courses at UCSB. She loves sharing her experiences in Colombia and Colombian culture with her students. When she is not teaching, Meagan works as a Research Assistant in the Bilingualism, Translation, and Cognition Lab at UCSB.