Doireann MacDermott Goodridge (/ˈdɔːriən məkˈdɜːmət/ DOR-ee-ən mək-DUR-mət;[2] 13 December 1923 – 13 November 2024) was an Irish translator, writer, an academic in the field of Spanish philology, and a professor of English studies at the University of Barcelona.

[5] Doireann MacDermott Goodridge[6] was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 13 December 1923[4] to an Irish father, Anthony MacDermott, who was an officer in the British Royal Navy and a Canadian mother,[2] Evelyn Goodridge, who was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and educated in Germany.

[2] In 1939, her brother, Diarmuid MacDermott, died in the sinking of the British warship HMS Royal Oak, which was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland, at the beginning of the Second World War.

[2] She took a French course at the University of Geneva, where she met her future husband, Ramón Carnicer Blanco [es].

In 1964, she received her doctorate cum laude in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Barcelona, for her thesis "La otra cara de la justicia" ("The other face of justice"), a study on the world of crime in English literature, for which she received the Barcelona City Award [es],[7] and was published in 1966 by Plaza & Janés.

[11] MacDermott was a pioneer in the introduction into Spain postcolonial studies and published numerous articles on this subject.