Interpreting and Translation Studies

Faculty

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.

Full-Time Faculty

Dr. Diego Burgos

Associate Professor Spanish & Linguistics ITS Program Associate Director Spanish and English

Dr. Mollie Rose Canzona

Associate Professor
Department of Communications

Dr. Xijinyan Chen 陈西金燕

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interpreting and Translation Studies
Chinese and English

Dr. Jerid Francom

Associate Professor
Spanish & Linguistics
English and Spanish

Dr. Olgierda Furmanek

Professor Spanish Department ITS Program Director Polish, English and Spanish

Dr. Steve Giles

Associate Professor
Department of Communications

Dr. Luis Gonzalez

Professor
Spanish & Linguistics
Spanish and English

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Dr. César Gutiérrez

Assistant Professor
Spanish & Linguistics
Spanish and English

Dr. Tiffany Judy

Associate Professor
Spanish & Linguistics
English and Spanish

Dr. Zak Lancaster

Associate Professor
English Department

Dr. Stéphanie Pellet

Associate Professor
French Studies
French and English

Dr. Brett Rosenberg

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interpreting and Translation Studies
English and Spanish

Dr. Teresa Sanhueza

Associate Professor
Spanish Department
Spanish and English

Dr. Chaowei Zhu 朱超威

Associate Teaching Professor
Interpreting and Translation Studies
ITS Program Co-Director
Assistant Dean for Global Initiatives
Chinese and English

Emerita

Dr. Sally Babour

Professor Emerita
French Studies

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

Dr. Carlos Fasola

Adjunct Instructor
Manager, Language Services
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Spanish and English

Dr. Zhewei Gregory

Adjunct Research Project Director
Founder and CEO
Diplomat Communications, LLC
Chinese and English

Dr. Gabriel Quiroz

Visiting Professor
Professor of Translation and Language Technologies
School of Languages
University of Antioquia,
Colombia
Spanish and English

Fr. Henryk Ślusarczyk SVD

Adjunct Research Project Director
Interpreting and Translation Studies
Polish, Portuguese and English

Andrew Smith

Adjunct Instructor
Interpreting and Translation Studies

Wei Whitbeck

Adjunct Instructor
Interpreting and Translation Studies
Chinese and English

Chinese Visiting Scholars

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.

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.