Language and Culture: Forms of Interpreting a Journey into Interpreters' Human, Cultural, and Linguistic Awareness

Mariachiara Russo is an associate professor at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori) in Forlí, Italy, a campus of the University of Bologna. As a graduate of the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators at the University of Trieste in Italy, Prof. Russo began her professional career in 1988 as a conference interpreter of English and Spanish. From 1993 to 2001, before coming to Forlí, she taught simultaneous and consecutive interpreting from Spanish into Italian at her alma mater in Trieste. Her research interests include testing methodology to assess students’ aptitude for simultaneous interpreting, linguistic contrasts between Spanish and Italian, analysis of errors in interpreting, simultaneous interpreting of film, and the effect of language directionality in simultaneous interpreting. Prof. Russo has published numerous scholarly articles in Italian, Spanish, and English, and she is co-editor of the widely recognized Interpretazione simultanea e consecutiva: Problemi teorici e metodologie didattiche (“Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting: Theoretical Problems and Didactic Methodology”) published by Milan: Hoepli, 1999.