Translation & Interpretation Faculty

Regular Faculty

Christiane Abel

Assistant Professor & Language Coordinator French T & I

Office: Casa Fuente Building
Email: christiane.abel@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6638

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of French and English

John Balcom

Professor & Faculty Senate President

Office: McCone Building
Email: jbalcom@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4190

Expertise: 

Translation of Chinese and English

Chuanyun Bao

Professor

Office: Casa Fuente Building
Email: cbao@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4172

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of Chinese and English

Laura Burian

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: laura.burian@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3554

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of Chinese and English

Wallace Chen

Assistant Professor & Language Coordinator Chinese T & I

Email: wallace.chen@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Interpreting and translation of English and Chinese, corpus-based translation studies

Yoonji Choi

Assistant Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: yoonji.choi@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3549

Expertise: 

Translation, software localization, simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of Korean and English

Marsha Man-Hua Chou

Associate Professor

Office: McCone 229
Email: mchou@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4170

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation

María Sierra Córdoba Serrano

Assistant Professor and Program Chair, Translation

Office: IIRC 3
Email: mcordobaserrano@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4609

Expertise: 

Translation and revision from English and French into Spanish; sociology of translation.

Carl J. Fehlandt

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: cfehlandt@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6432

Expertise: 

Translation of Spanish and English

Michael Gillen

Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: mgillen@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4192

Expertise: 

Translation of Russian-language scientific and technical publications, particularly materials science and engineering; integration of translation technology into translation curricula

Jacolyn Harmer

Professor

Office: IIRC 8
Email: jharmer@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4604

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of German, French, Spanish into English; interpreter pedagogy

Andrea Hofmann-Miller

Assistant Professor & Language Coordinator German T & I

Office: McCone Building
Email: ahofmann@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3527

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of German and English

Michael Jacobs

Lecturer

Office: McCone Building
Email: mjacobs@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.7105

Expertise: 

Dialects, voice, and diction

Julie Johnson

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: jjohnson@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3089

Expertise: 

Translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of French and English

Rosa Kavenoki

Professor, Language Coordinator Russian T & I

Office: McCone Building
Email: rkavenoki@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3515

Expertise: 

Translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of Russian and English, Consulting on T&I quality assessment issues, intercultural communication and related matters

Minhua Liu

Associate Professor

Office: McCone 126
Email: minhual@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4611

Expertise: 
  • Practice: Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting of English and Mandarin
  • Academic: Cognitive aspects of interpreting, evaluation and testing in interpreting, research methodology in translation and interpreting

Uwe Muegge

Assistant Professor and Program Chair, Translation & Localization Management

Office: McCone Building
Email: uwe.muegge@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4170

Expertise: 

Computer-assisted translation, machine translation, terminology management, controlled language

Barry Slaughter Olsen

Assistant Professor and Program Chair, Interpretation

Office: 5 IIRC
Email: barry.olsen@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4628

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, T&I education, multilingual negotiations, political and diplomatic discourse, and interpretation technologies.

Tanya Fumiko Pound

Assistant Professor & Language Coordinator Japanese T & I

Office: McCone Building
Email: tanya.pound@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4189

Expertise: 

Translation of Japanese and English

Xiaojing Shi

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: xshi@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4167

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of Chinese and English

Cas Shulman-Mora

Assistant Professor & Language Coordinator Spanish T & I

Office: 230 McCone Building
Email: cshulmanmora@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Translation and Interpretation between Spanish and English.

Miryoung Sohn

Associate Professor & Language Coordinator Korean T & I

Office: M129 McCone Building
Email: miryoung.sohn@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3552

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of Korean and English

Zinan Ye

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: zinan.ye@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4160

Expertise: 

Translation of Chinese and English

Visiting Faculty

Scott E. Myers

Visiting Professor

Office: IIRC 4
Email: smyers@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6636

Adjunct Faculty

Celine Detraz

Adjunct Professor

Office: Suite 300, Casa Fuente
Email: celine.detraz@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6638

Expertise: 

Translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of French and English

Andrei G. Falaleyev

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: afalaley@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4170

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of Russian and English

Cyril Flerov

Adjunt Professor

Email: cyrilf@att.net

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation between Russian and English.

Specialty topics include aerospace industry, nuclear industry, environment, engineering, computers, oil and gas industry, mass media, law, politics and economics.

Mr. Flerov is experienced in teaching simultaneous and consecutive interpretation at undergraduate and graduate levels both in the United States and Russia.

Kang Liao

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: kliao@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4170

Expertise: 

American literature (Pearl S. Buck), translation of English and Chinese, and telephonic interpretation

Joseph McClinton

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: jmcclinton@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6511

Expertise: 

Translation of German and English

Holly Mikkelson

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: hmikkelson@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4607

Expertise: 

Translation and interpretation of Spanish and English, court and medical interpreting

Koko Peters

Adjunct Professor

Email: koko.peters@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation of Japanese and English

Hideko Russell

Adjunct Faculty

Office: M108, McCone
Email: hrussell@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4187

Expertise: 

Translation

Kayoko Takeda

Associate Professor

Office: McCone Building
Email: kayoko.takeda@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4179

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation of Japanese and English

Wilhelm Weber

Adjunct Professor

Email: wweber@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Prof. Weber has worked in all sectors of the interpreting market (international organizations, including the United Nations and the EU, foreign ministries, summits of heads of state and government, and conventions) in Europe, the USA, Asia, and Latin America. He is also known as chief interpreter of seven Olympic Games.

From 1978 to 1992 he was Dean of what is now the GSTILE.