Formal name: Maria Herke

Position: Associate Lecturer

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: BA (Hons), Ph.D. Macq.

Telephone: +61 2 9850 4249

Fax: +61 2 9850 9199

Email: maria.herke@ling.mq.edu.au

Location: C5A 416

Profile

Maria is a linguist and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in text analysis, grammar and meaning and communication skills, including units on the Masters of Translation & Interpreting and the Masters of Applied Linguistics.She convenes the distance units, LING900, LING907 and LING991 and is currently convening LING900 internal.

In addition to Macquarie, over recent years, Maria has taught and researched in language analysis at the University of Sydney, the University of Wollongong and the University of Technology. She has also taught courses as an invited lecturer at the Central Institute for English & Foreign Languages (CIEFL) and Guru Nanak Dev University in India.

Maria has a number of research interests including theoretically guided corpus analysis, the application of computational tools to quantitative text analysis as a complementarity to qualitative manual text analysis, the application of text analysis and language typology to translation and interpreting, and the analysis of communication in health care situations. Maria’s cross-disciplinary research coupled with her experience as a liaison between technical and non-technical fields orients her personal model of research and development toward the task of making linguistics accessible to the consumers and to the community.

Accordingly, she is an ardent advocate for establishing and strengthening connections between linguistics and activities in other contexts, both academic and otherwise.