dr. sonia colina
scolina@L2Languages.com

bio

Sonia Colina is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. She previously directed the Translation Certificate Program at Arizona State University, where she also taught translation. She is the author of Translation Teaching: from Research to the Classroom (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and of numerous articles in edited volumes and prestigious journals such as Target, The Translator, Babel, Linguistics and Lingua. Her research areas are pedagogy of translation, translator training, and linguistics and translation, in particular, the connections between communicative translation, language teaching and second language acquisition. Dr. Colina also works as an expert consultant for translation pedagogy for the University of Arizona’s National Center on Interpretation Research and Policy and as translation scholar and advisor for the Hablamos Juntos project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ( www.hablamosjuntos.org ). As a consultant for Hablamos Juntos she has developed workshops for training medical translators and managers in the ten demonstration sites of Phase I of the project and is currently involved in the development and testing of a prototype tool for assessing translation quality. In addition, Dr. Colina has extensive in-house and free-lance translation experience. She received her PhD in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and is a SUNY-Binghamton alumna (MA, Translation Studies), where she was a manager for the university’s Translation Center (TRF). Before accepting her current position at the University of Arizona, she taught translation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University and Arizona State University. She is a member of the Executive Board of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA), and ATA (American Translators Association) Member. She serves on the advisory Boards of the Interpreter and Translator Trainer and of Confluencias.