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Dr Carlos Sanz Mingo
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Carlos Sanz Mingo
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Translation Studies
Overview
After achieving my degree in Literary Theory and Criticism in the University of Valladolid (Spain), I took my doctorate courses and wrote my Masters Dissertation about modern Arthurian Literature, focusing my study on a British author, Bernard Cornwell. I have written my PhD thesis on the trilogy The Warlord Chronicles by the aforementioned author.
I have been teaching Spanish as a foreign language since 1998, when I first came to Wales to work as an assistant at a secondary school. I have been teaching for Cardiff University since 2001. Spanish Language (at various levels), Spanish Literature and History and Spanish Cinema are some of the courses I have offered throughout these years.
I started working for the School of European Languages, Translation and Politics 2004.
Co-ordination duties
- Module Coordinator of Introduction to Specialised Translation (BA in Translation)
- Module Coordinator of The World and Language of Business (Spanish) (BA in Spanish)
School Roles
- Incoming Exchange Students Officer.
- Director of Externally Focused Language Provision
Publication
2025
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2025. Healer and destroyer; Morgan's eternal ambiguity. In: Çetiner-Öktem, Z. and Hatipoğlu, G. eds. Eurasian Folk & Fairy Tales: Bridging Continents. Izmir: Ege University, pp. 137-154.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2025. Business language as a means to engage students in sustainable development. In: Stoian, C. and Trajanoska, I. eds. Language, Culture and Business. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 225-244.
2023
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2023. Eric fighting in Guatemala. Adaptation and proximation of medieval Arthurian literature in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Erec y Enide. Journal of the International Arthurian Society 11(1), pp. 83-104. (10.1515/jias-2023-0005)
2022
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2022. Sé quién eres (2000): amnesia, terrorismo y perdón. Revista Electrónica del Lenguaje 8(1), pp. 50-60.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2022. Línguas estrangeiras modernas e o Reino Unido: o caso do País de Gales [Modern Foreign Languages and The United Kingdom: The Case of Wales]. Práticas Educativas, Memórias e Oralidades 4(1), article number: e48404. (10.47149/pemo.v4.e48404)
- Sanz Mingo, C. A. 2022. La expresión de la esperanza. Punto y Coma 81(1), pp. 44-45.
2019
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2019. Los "maquis", o la oposición guerrillera a la dictadura de Franco. Revista Electrónica del Lenguaje 5(6), pp. 165-182.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2019. La guerra civil española: la batalla de Aragón. Tecla: Revista de la Consejeria de Educacion en el Reino Unido e Irlanda 2019(1), pp. 14-25.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2019. From 'Kerueþ of Hire Nose' to 'I Must Do Penance': Traumas and wounds in Arthurian Literature.. In: Sanz Mingo, C., Atilla, A. and Waterman, D. eds. Literature, Narrative and Trauma. Izmir: Ege Ûniversitesi Basımevi, pp. 49-60.
- Sanz Mingo, C., Atilla, A. and Waterman, D. eds. 2019. Literature, narrative and trauma. Izmir: Ege Ûniversitesi Basımevi.
2018
- Sanz Mingo, C., Carrasco, A., Rubio-Arribas, B., Echaves, S., Munguia-Peacock, B., Broderick, C. and Perez-Nieto, N. 2018. The two Spains: 1936 onwards for A Level Spanish. ZigZag Education.
2017
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2017. 'So God me help, I sin not, for my husband is my shame.' The Strength of Female Characters in Contemporary Arthurian Literature. In: Çetiner-Öktem, Z., Tuğlu, B. and Kıryaman, E. eds. Languages, Cultures, and Gender. [Languages, Cultures, and Gender]. Izmir: Ege Üniversitesi, pp. 185-195.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2017. La mujer en dos películas españolas. Revista Electronica del Lenguaje 4, pp. 1-6.
- Sanz Mingo, C., Carrasco, A., Rubio-Arribas, B., Broderick, C., Echaves, S., Munguia-Peacock, B. and Perez-Nieto, N. 2017. TECLA Taqra. Conoce la Facultad de Lenguas Modernas de la Universidad de Cardiff. TECLA. Revista de la Consejería de Educación en el Reino Unido e Irlanda 3, pp. 5-7.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. The Arthurian world in Bernard Cornwell's "The Warlord Chronicles". Dortmund: Verlag.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. and Rabelo Câmara, Y. 2017. De fada Morgana à bruxa Morgana- as transformaçôes sofridas por esta personagem arturiana ao longo de oito séculos e seu resgate literário recente. Diálogos 20(3), pp. 82-96. (10.4025/dialogos.v20i3.33671)
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. "La casa por el tejado". Frases hechas con la palabra casa.. Puntoycoma.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. Celda 211. Ruta ELE.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. Arthurian adaptations of the Otherworld. In: Cubukcu, F. ed. Aesthetic Reverberations in Literature and Education. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 45-60.
2016
- Rabelo Camara, Y., Sanz-Mingo, C. and Rabelo Camara, Y. M. 2016. Das bruxas medievais às benzedeiras atuais: a oralidade como manutençâo da memória na arte de curar-uma pesquisa exploratória. Boitatá 11(22), pp. 221-236.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2016. Los girasoles ciegos. Tecla. REVISTA DE LA CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN EN EL REINO UNIDO E IRLANDA.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2016. Translation, adaptation, propaganda: Alfonso X of Castile and "Historia Regum Britanniae". Acta Universitatis Danubius 10(2), pp. 22-39.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2016. Las relaciones sociales: propuesta didáctica basada en las películas "Solas" y "La Comunidad".. Lengcom. Revista de Investigación Científica.
2015
- Kolinská, K. and Sanz Mingo, C. A. eds. 2015. Read on screen. Film adaptations of literature in English. Prague: Metropolitan University Prague.
- Sanz Mingo, C. A. 2015. The Adventures of King Arthur and the noble knights of the silver screen. In: Read on Screen. Film Adaptations of Literature in English. Prague: Metropolitan University Prague, pp. 60-76.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2015. Medieval world, modern world: the making of a nation. The Welsh Mabinogion in modern adaptations. In: Marquis, C., Nicholson, R. and Szamosi, G. eds. Contested Identities. Literary Negotations in Time and Place.. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 121-136.
2014
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2014. Un texto galés en España: la recepción y traducción de "Culhwch ac Olwen" de los Mabinogion. In: Zarandona, J. M. ed. De Britania a Britonia. La leyenda artúrica en tierras de Iberia: cultura, literatura y traducción., Vol. 12. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 41-67.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2014. ¿Hablando con mirlos? El uso de la personificación de animales en la leyenda artúrica. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología 36, pp. 156-165.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2014. Propuesta didáctica para "¡Ay, Carmela!" y "La hora de los valientes.. Vida Hispánica.
2013
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2013. From the Middle Ages to the future: The Arthurian legend and its transcultural value. In: Prieto Arranz, J. I. et al. eds. De-Centring Cultural Studies: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 71-88.
2011
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2011. Women, politics, religion: the reshaping of Arthuriana. In: Alamichel, M. and Braid, R. eds. Texte et Contexte: Littérature et Histoire de l’Europe médiévale. Colloques Paris: Michel Houdiard, pp. 570-586.
2010
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2010. Redifining modernism and postmodernism: The case of Arthurian literature. In: Sebnem, T. and Zapf, H. eds. Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 278-291.
2009
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2009. And women took over Arthuriana. B.A.S. British and American Studies 15, pp. 155-166.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2009. Changing motifs in Arthurian literature: towards a new Round Table. Philologia VII, pp. 101-108.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2009. Forcing the bull into its knees: the Mithraic strife in modern Arthuriana. Minerva XXII, pp. 205-215.
Articles
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2023. Eric fighting in Guatemala. Adaptation and proximation of medieval Arthurian literature in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Erec y Enide. Journal of the International Arthurian Society 11(1), pp. 83-104. (10.1515/jias-2023-0005)
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2022. Sé quién eres (2000): amnesia, terrorismo y perdón. Revista Electrónica del Lenguaje 8(1), pp. 50-60.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2022. Línguas estrangeiras modernas e o Reino Unido: o caso do País de Gales [Modern Foreign Languages and The United Kingdom: The Case of Wales]. Práticas Educativas, Memórias e Oralidades 4(1), article number: e48404. (10.47149/pemo.v4.e48404)
- Sanz Mingo, C. A. 2022. La expresión de la esperanza. Punto y Coma 81(1), pp. 44-45.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2019. Los "maquis", o la oposición guerrillera a la dictadura de Franco. Revista Electrónica del Lenguaje 5(6), pp. 165-182.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2019. La guerra civil española: la batalla de Aragón. Tecla: Revista de la Consejeria de Educacion en el Reino Unido e Irlanda 2019(1), pp. 14-25.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2017. La mujer en dos películas españolas. Revista Electronica del Lenguaje 4, pp. 1-6.
- Sanz Mingo, C., Carrasco, A., Rubio-Arribas, B., Broderick, C., Echaves, S., Munguia-Peacock, B. and Perez-Nieto, N. 2017. TECLA Taqra. Conoce la Facultad de Lenguas Modernas de la Universidad de Cardiff. TECLA. Revista de la Consejería de Educación en el Reino Unido e Irlanda 3, pp. 5-7.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. and Rabelo Câmara, Y. 2017. De fada Morgana à bruxa Morgana- as transformaçôes sofridas por esta personagem arturiana ao longo de oito séculos e seu resgate literário recente. Diálogos 20(3), pp. 82-96. (10.4025/dialogos.v20i3.33671)
- Rabelo Camara, Y., Sanz-Mingo, C. and Rabelo Camara, Y. M. 2016. Das bruxas medievais às benzedeiras atuais: a oralidade como manutençâo da memória na arte de curar-uma pesquisa exploratória. Boitatá 11(22), pp. 221-236.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2016. Translation, adaptation, propaganda: Alfonso X of Castile and "Historia Regum Britanniae". Acta Universitatis Danubius 10(2), pp. 22-39.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2014. ¿Hablando con mirlos? El uso de la personificación de animales en la leyenda artúrica. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología 36, pp. 156-165.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2009. And women took over Arthuriana. B.A.S. British and American Studies 15, pp. 155-166.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2009. Changing motifs in Arthurian literature: towards a new Round Table. Philologia VII, pp. 101-108.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2009. Forcing the bull into its knees: the Mithraic strife in modern Arthuriana. Minerva XXII, pp. 205-215.
Book sections
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2025. Healer and destroyer; Morgan's eternal ambiguity. In: Çetiner-Öktem, Z. and Hatipoğlu, G. eds. Eurasian Folk & Fairy Tales: Bridging Continents. Izmir: Ege University, pp. 137-154.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2025. Business language as a means to engage students in sustainable development. In: Stoian, C. and Trajanoska, I. eds. Language, Culture and Business. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 225-244.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2019. From 'Kerueþ of Hire Nose' to 'I Must Do Penance': Traumas and wounds in Arthurian Literature.. In: Sanz Mingo, C., Atilla, A. and Waterman, D. eds. Literature, Narrative and Trauma. Izmir: Ege Ûniversitesi Basımevi, pp. 49-60.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2017. 'So God me help, I sin not, for my husband is my shame.' The Strength of Female Characters in Contemporary Arthurian Literature. In: Çetiner-Öktem, Z., Tuğlu, B. and Kıryaman, E. eds. Languages, Cultures, and Gender. [Languages, Cultures, and Gender]. Izmir: Ege Üniversitesi, pp. 185-195.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. Arthurian adaptations of the Otherworld. In: Cubukcu, F. ed. Aesthetic Reverberations in Literature and Education. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 45-60.
- Sanz Mingo, C. A. 2015. The Adventures of King Arthur and the noble knights of the silver screen. In: Read on Screen. Film Adaptations of Literature in English. Prague: Metropolitan University Prague, pp. 60-76.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2015. Medieval world, modern world: the making of a nation. The Welsh Mabinogion in modern adaptations. In: Marquis, C., Nicholson, R. and Szamosi, G. eds. Contested Identities. Literary Negotations in Time and Place.. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 121-136.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2014. Un texto galés en España: la recepción y traducción de "Culhwch ac Olwen" de los Mabinogion. In: Zarandona, J. M. ed. De Britania a Britonia. La leyenda artúrica en tierras de Iberia: cultura, literatura y traducción., Vol. 12. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 41-67.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2013. From the Middle Ages to the future: The Arthurian legend and its transcultural value. In: Prieto Arranz, J. I. et al. eds. De-Centring Cultural Studies: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 71-88.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2011. Women, politics, religion: the reshaping of Arthuriana. In: Alamichel, M. and Braid, R. eds. Texte et Contexte: Littérature et Histoire de l’Europe médiévale. Colloques Paris: Michel Houdiard, pp. 570-586.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2010. Redifining modernism and postmodernism: The case of Arthurian literature. In: Sebnem, T. and Zapf, H. eds. Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 278-291.
Books
- Sanz Mingo, C., Atilla, A. and Waterman, D. eds. 2019. Literature, narrative and trauma. Izmir: Ege Ûniversitesi Basımevi.
- Sanz Mingo, C., Carrasco, A., Rubio-Arribas, B., Echaves, S., Munguia-Peacock, B., Broderick, C. and Perez-Nieto, N. 2018. The two Spains: 1936 onwards for A Level Spanish. ZigZag Education.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. The Arthurian world in Bernard Cornwell's "The Warlord Chronicles". Dortmund: Verlag.
- Kolinská, K. and Sanz Mingo, C. A. eds. 2015. Read on screen. Film adaptations of literature in English. Prague: Metropolitan University Prague.
Other
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. "La casa por el tejado". Frases hechas con la palabra casa.. Puntoycoma.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2017. Celda 211. Ruta ELE.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2016. Los girasoles ciegos. Tecla. REVISTA DE LA CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN EN EL REINO UNIDO E IRLANDA.
- Sanz Mingo, C. 2016. Las relaciones sociales: propuesta didáctica basada en las películas "Solas" y "La Comunidad".. Lengcom. Revista de Investigación Científica.
- Sanz-Mingo, C. 2014. Propuesta didáctica para "¡Ay, Carmela!" y "La hora de los valientes.. Vida Hispánica.
Research
Research Interests
- Arthurian Literature
- The Middle Ages
- Language Paedagogy
Teaching
Office Hours 2024-2025
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays 11.30-12.30 (autumn semester)
Undergraduate 2024-2025
Year 1 module: Understanding Hispanidad in a Global Context
- Spain and the Iberian Peninsula
- Spain and Europe: the Middle Ages: the three cultures.
- Spain and the world: Conquest and decline.
- Spain, a Second Class Power in Europe (Politics and Society, 18th and 19th centuries).
Year 2 module: The World and Language of Business (Spanish)
Year 2 module: Introduction to Specialised Translation
- Scientific and Technical Translation
- Medical Translation
- Literary Translation
Year 4 module: Spanish Grammar
- Language in Context
Year 4 module: Student Language Ambassador
- Language mentor
Postgraduate
Module: Scientific and Technical Translation
Module: Politics and Law Translation
Biography
After achieving my degree in Literary Theory and Criticism in the University of Valladolid (Spain), I took my doctorate courses and wrote my Masters Dissertation about modern Arthurian Literature, focusing my study on a British author, Bernard Cornwell. I have written my PhD thesis on the trilogy The Warlord Chronicles by the aforementioned author. I am interested in Medieval Literature and Culture, Neo-medievalism, Literature and Mythology, Literature and History, Comparative Literature and Literary Criticism, History of Language and the diachronic and synchronic study of Languages.
I am currently co-supervising a PhD in Spain on the topic of reception of the Arthurian tradition in Europe and another on the production of contemporary Arthurian texts in Spain.
Professional memberships
- Medium Ævum (The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature)
- CLYTIAR (Arthurian Culture, Literature and Translation in the Iberian Peninsula)
- International Arthurian Society (British branch)
Supervisions
Current research supervision
Almudena Gómez Seoane, PhD thesis “Caracterización y función de los personajes femeninos en diferentes manifestaciones de las leyendas artúricas: Estudio comparativo e interdisciplinar " (with Dr. Margarita Estevez Saá, University of Santiago de Compostela).
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Medieval literature
- Translation
- Iberian languages