Biographies
Gianna Tarquini has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Interpreting and Translation at the University of Bologna, where she managed the FORLIXT project, a multimedia database for foreign language learning and translator training. She has developed a research project on videogame localisation for the Game Studies area at the Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and for the GILT framework at the Localisation Research Centre of the University of Limerick. She is also a member of the teaching staff of the CAWEB master’s degree at the University of Strasbourg, a programme strongly focused on web and video creation in addition to foreign languages and localisation.
E-mail: gianna.tarquini2@unibo.it
Richard E. McDorman is Chief Academic Officer at Language On, a private language training institution in Miami, Florida. He is also a Commissioner and the 2019 Chair of the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA), an accrediting agency recognised by the United States Department of Education for the accreditation of postsecondary English language programs and institutions. A freelance translator and author and editor of ESL/EFL textbooks, his prior research has focused on historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, English dialectology and the semiotics of early writing systems.
E-mail: rmcdorman@uchicago.edu