Chris Erskine
Adjunct Professor
Chris Erskine is a professional translator working primarily in the area of finance and economics (English A, German B). He has over 25 years of experience as a full-time freelance translator, spending 15 of those years in Germany. His regular clients include prominent German, Austrian, and Swiss banks and research institutes. His teaching experience in this field includes a long-standing private practice in Germany, two years at the Werbeakademie Hamburg, and an affiliation that began in 2001 with the graduate school of translation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Expertise
Freelance English translator specializing in banking and finance. Responsibilities include translation and editing of financial and economic texts: investor relations materials of all kinds including corporate, sectoral, and macroeconomic analyses for investment markets as well as quarterly and annual reports and many other text types in the banking business. Also widely experienced in German-English translation of advertising, marketing, and public relations materials and in legal and commercial texts.
Education
University of Hamburg, grantee, Germanistic Society/Fulbright, 1982
Goethe-Institut, 1979 and 1981
Princeton University, PhD candidate, Classics/Philosophy, 1980
Princeton University, MA, Classics/Philosophy, 1980
University of California, Berkeley, AB 1973
