Translation & Interpreting

Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies Appointments via my Appointment Schedule Fall 2025 Office Hours: T 11 AM – 1 pm, W 1:15 to 3:15 PM, Virtual Only: T 3:00-5:00PM and by appointment Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau is Professor of Comparative Literature and German. Currently she is serving as Chair of the Department of Languages, […]

Full Time Faculty Fall 2025 Office Hours: Drop In Hours (Both In Person or Online): MWF 9AM-10AMBy Appointment (Online): TR 10AM-2PM Overview Jordan Bledsoe is a lecturer of Japanese, teaching all levels of Japanese language as well as Japanese culture-related courses. After living in Kyushu and Okinawa for two years, Jordan then earned a B.A in […]

Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate of Translating Japanese-English Fall 2025 Office Hours: Online Only: TR 9:30AM-10:30AM David Boyd is an Associate Professor of Japanese. He has translated fiction by Izumi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, and Kanoko Okamoto, among others. His translations of novellas by Hideo Furukawa (Slow Boat; Pushkin Press, 2017) and Hiroko Oyamada (The Hole; New […]

Fall 2025 Office Hours: Both In Person and Online: Wednesday 1PM-2PM, Online: Tuesday 10AM-11AM & R 5:30PM-6:30PM, or by appointment Concepcion Godev teaches courses in the fields of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish as a second language. Her research focuses on pedagogical aspects of translation and second language acquisition. In the last three years she […]

Coordinator of Elementary and Intermediate Level German Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person: Monday 2:45PM-3:45PM & Friday 10AM-11AM, Online: Tuesday 10AM-11AM, and by appointment Susanne Gomoluch is a Teaching Professor of German and the Coordinator for Elementary and Intermediate German classes at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation, and the advisor for Health & […]

Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: TR 1:30PM-2:30PM Phil Kaffen is an associate professor of Japanese and cinema. His research and teaching focuses on visual images, including cinema, animation, photography, and installation. In particular, the role of images in broader social and cultural issues from militarism and war to sovereignty and ecology form the […]

Coordinator of Spanish Fall 2025 Office Hours: Online Only: Wednesday 6PM-7PM and by appointment Jeffrey Killman is an associate professor of Spanish at UNC Charlotte, where he teaches a range of topics including legal translation, scientific and technical translation, translation technologies, and translation theory. He has also taught translation practice courses at the American University […]

Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate of Translating French-English Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate in Business French Director of Graduate Certificate in French Translating Fall 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: Wednesday 1PM-5PM, Online by appointment Mary A. LaMarca is Teaching Professor of French and the French major/minor adviser, as well as the French Club faculty adviser. She […]

Graduate Director Fall 2025 Office Hours: Online Only: Monday 7-8PM and by appointment Christopher D. Mellinger is a Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation and is affiliate faculty for the Latin American Studies program at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Mellinger holds a Ph.D. in Translation Studies from Kent […]

Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate of Translating Spanish-English Fall 2025 Office Hours: Online Only: Monday 8AM-9:30AM, Tuesday 3PM-4PM and by appointment Education M.B.A., International Business and Marketing, University of Chicago (2002) Ph.D., Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Pennisular Literature, University of Kansas (1998) M.A., Spanish Literature, University of South Carolina (1992) B.A., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, […]