The ITS program faculty specializations reflect the interdisciplinary character of the program and cover a broad spectrum of intercultural, interlingual and intersocietal communication areas. The program faculty provides expertise in such areas as interpreting and translation studies, terminology, editing and revising, different subfields of linguistics, communication studies, management and organizational behavior.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Interpreting and Translation Studies
Chinese and English
Assistant Teaching Professor
Interpreting and Translation Studies
English and Spanish
Adjunct Instructor
Manager, Language Services
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Spanish and English
Adjunct Research Project Director
Founder and CEO
Diplomat Communications, LLC
Chinese and English
Visiting Professor
Professor of Translation and Language Technologies
School of Languages
University of Antioquia,
Colombia
Spanish and English
Adjunct Research Project Director
Interpreting and Translation Studies
Polish, Portuguese and English
Xinyu Cao, Visiting Scholar 2024-25: Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Dr. Cao received her Ph.D. in Chinese literature (theatre) and her Master’s degree in translation studies from Nanjing University, and her bachelor’s degree in English from Wuhan University. Her research interests include translation history, translation of Shakespeare in China, applied translation and translation education.
Zhenqin Xiong, Visiting Scholar 2018-19: Professor and Dean, School of Economics and Management, Yichun University. Dr. Xiong holds a PhD in World Economics. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at Beijing Normal University from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Xiong’s main research interests include world economics, cross-cultural management and financial translation.
Wenhua Qin, Visiting Scholar 2017-18: Associate Professor. Dr. Qin received her PhD in Translation Theory and Practice from Nanjing University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in Foreign Languages and Literature at Nanjing Normal University from 2008 to 2011. Dr. Qin currently teaches at Nanjing Normal University and her research interests lie in American civilization, translation theory and cross-cultural communication. 
