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

Leire Carbonell-Aguero

Faculty

Office: M 228 McCone
Email: lcarbonell@miis.edu
Phone: 831-647-4177

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation

Wallace Chen

Associate Professor & Language Coordinator Chinese T & I

Office: IIRC 3
Email: wallace.chen@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4167

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

Office: McCone Building 109
Email: mcordobaserrano@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4609

Expertise: 

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

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, Russian T & I Coordinator

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

Expertise: 

Translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretation in the Russian-English combination

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: 

Interpreting: Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting of English and Mandarin

Academic: Cognitive aspects of interpreting, assessment and testing in interpreting, research methodology in translation and interpreting

Uwe Muegge

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Translation & Localization Management

Office: McCone Building 233
Email: uwe.muegge@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4170

Expertise: 

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

Barry Slaughter Olsen

Assistant Professor

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

Expertise: 

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, interpreter training and education, multilingual negotiations, political and diplomatic discourse, and interpreting and technology.

Tanya Fumiko Pound

Assistant Professor

Office: McCone Building 108
Email: tanya.pound@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4189

Expertise: 

Translation of Japanese and English

Hideko Russell

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator Japanese T & I

Office: McCone Building 108
Email: hrussell@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4187

Expertise: 

Translation

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
Phone: 831.647.4161

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: 

English-Chinese translation, especially in areas of humanities and social sciences.Other expertise includes translation pedagogy, cognitive metaphor and translation, and translation theory.

Visiting Faculty

Sieun Lee

Office: McCone 229
Email: sieunl@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.6636

Megumi Matsuoka

Office: McCone 227
Email: mmatsuoka@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.3540

Scott E. Myers

Visiting Professor

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

Adjunct Faculty

Chris Erskine

Adjunct Professor

Email: jerskine@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4185

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.

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

Adjunct Professor

Email: cyrilf@att.net
Phone: 831.647.4185

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.

Teresa Forster-Marshall

Adjunct Professor

Office: McCone, M124A
Email: tforstermarshall@miis.edu
Phone: 408.431.3868

Expertise: 

Localization and internationalization, process design and implementation, localization project management, language quality management, vendor management

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

Esther Navarro-Hall

Adjunct Faculty

Office: McCone 227
Email: enavarro@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4177

Expertise: 

Conference, Corporate, Court, Medical, and Community Interpreting

Cristina Silva

Adjunct Professor

Email: csilva@miis.edu
Phone: 831-647-4182

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

Max Troyer

Translation Localization Management Professor

Office: McCone M124A
Email: mtroyer@miis.edu
Phone: 831.920.8610

Expertise: 

Project management, translation process and workflow consulting, multilingual desktop publishing, multilingual websites, software localization, localization engineering and translation software training.

Kate Walker

Adjunct Professor

Email: katherin@miis.edu

Expertise: 

Business and legal translation and conference interpretation from French and German into English

Wilhelm Weber

Adjunct Professor

Email: wweber@miis.edu
Phone: 831.647.4185

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.