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Formal name: Mira Kim Position: Lecturer Personal Title: Dr Qualifications: BA (Sookmyung), MA (GSIT, HUFS), PgDip TESOL (Macq), PhD (Macq), NAATI-accredited Advanced Translator and Conference Interpreter Telephone: +61 2 9850 9607 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 Email: Mira.Kim@mq.edu.au Location: C5A 417 Web Pages: Selected publications

Profile

Mira Kim is an academic and practitioner in the field of translation and interpreting. She was trained as a professional translator and interpreter and practiced for a number of years before she joined the Translation and Interpreting programs in the department in 2000. Since then, she has been teaching a number of units, both practical and theoretical, and involved in several research projects. She completed her PhD thesis in 2007.

Teaching

Mira is the coordinator of the double degree Master program of Translating and Interpreting and Applied Linguistics (TESOL) and she teaches and convenes TRAN834 Advanced Translation I and TRAN837 Special Topics in Translation. She also teaches TRAN820 Translation Practice, TRAN836 Advanced Translation II, TRAN819 Introduction to Text Analysis and TRAN827 Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting. In teaching these units, she combines her extensive experience as a practitioner and her various research efforts to embed theory and research in translator education. In 2007, she received a Faculty of Human Sciences Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. This ward was for ‘motivating and inspiring students to learn through passionate and innovative teaching’.

Research

Mira has been conducting several research projects. In 2003 and 2004, she undertook an action research project as a participant in a two-year pilot project called Action research for Change Towards Sustainability (ACTS): Change in Curricula and Graduate Skills Towards Sustainability. It was an inter-disciplinary project which was jointly funded by the Department of Environment and Heritage and Macquarie University in Australia. This classroom-based action research provided the opportunity to explore the question of how to incorporate sustainability in translator education (Kim 2005). During her PhD candidature from 2004 to 2007, Mira investigated the issue of textual meaning in translation and described the system of THEME in Korean using a corpus and discourse analysis. In 2007, she received a Faculty of Human Sciences Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research. She is currently involved in various projects including the PET (Plain English for Translations) project in collaboration with NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service and the research-embedded T&I programs review project at Macquarie University.

Research interests

• Translator education
• Translation quality assessment
• Text analysis for translation and interpreting
• T&I curriculum development
• Language teaching for advanced learners
• Sustainability for education
• Korean language typology