Translation Studies Affiliated Faculty

TRIP Faculty

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Ahmad Ayyad

Assistant Professor of Translation Studies

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Research Interests

  • Translation in conflict and war zones
  • Political discourse analysis
  • Translation and media
  • Subtitling and politics
  • Palestinian literature in translation
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Bryan Kirschen

Chair of Romance Languages; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics

Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Contact Linguistics
  • Language Variation
  • Documentary Linguistics
  • Language Ideologies
  • Sephardic Studies
  • Aljamiado Texts
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Nannan Liu

Assistant Professor of Translation Studies

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Interpreting studies
  • Translation studies
  • Computational linguistics
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Cognitive linguistics
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Jeanette Patterson

Associate Professor; TRIP Director, Associate Professor; Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Romance Languages and Literatures; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Medieval French Bible translation and adaptation
  • Taboos in translation
  • Christine de Pizan and translation
  • Political uses of biblical narratives
  • Manuscript studies
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Tarek Shamma

Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Comparative Literature

Research Interests

  • Translation and Culture
  • Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • The Arabian Nights
  • The Bible in Islamic Cultures
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Affiliated Faculty

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Zu-Yan Chen

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title; Director, Center for Theater Arts Collaboration

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Center for Theater Arts Collaboration
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Omid Ghaemmaghami

TRIP Graduate Director, Undergraduate Director; Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - Middle East Studies

成人AV视频 Interfaith Council; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Interdisciplinary Departments

As an interdisciplinary program, TRIP students work with faculty across many of 成人AV视频 University's academic departments. TRIP students meet and build relationships with 成人AV视频 faculty by taking their courses, attending their presentations, and contacting them directly. Faculty who commonly serve on TRIP committees are housed in the following departments: Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS), The Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (MEAMS), CompLit, English, German/Russian, History, Judaic Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Romance Languages, Sociology and Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership.