Biographies
Leah Gerber is a Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Monash University. She has been the Director of the Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies program since 2018 and has been teaching translation theory, practical translation and research methods in translation studies since 2009. She is co-editor (with Lintao (Rick) Qi) of A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation: English Publication and Reception (Routledge 2020) and co-editor (with Rita Wilson) of the 2012 volume Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship (Monash University Publishing). She was Editor of The AALITRA Review, a literary translation journal, from 2017-2019.
E-mail: leah.gerber@monash.edu
Jim Hlavac is a senior lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Monash University. He is a NAATI-certified and practising interpreter and translator with over 20 years’ experience working in health, legal, welfare, educational and business settings. He has published in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies, as well as in the related disciplines of multilingualism, contact linguistics, intercultural communication, pragmatics and heritage/minority language maintenance.
E-mail: jim.hlavac@monash.edu
Irwyn Shepherd is Academic Lead and Senior Simulation Education Specialist at Monash University. He has been involved in simulation-based education for 29 years. His current activities include the development of an Augmented Reality – Virtual Reality platform that will offer capability, scalability and sustainability, negotiating how the education principles of simulation can be applied in a range of disciplines at an enterprise level in a university, including where simulation sits in the assessment space and specifically in work-integrated learning in those disciplines.
E-mail: irwyn.shepherd@monash.edu
Paul McIntosh is Innovation Lead in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Services (VARS) Unit at Monash University. He has over 30 years’ experience in complex real-time computer systems, working in systems development, modelling/simulation and model-based engineering approaches. He has worked on systems such as the Collins Class submarine (Boeing), real-time model-based development tools (Rational Software) and MASSIVE, a visualisation supercomputer (Monash University).
E-mail: paul.mcintosh@monash.edu
Alex Avella Archila is an Assistant Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Monash University. Having graduated from a Master in Applied Linguistics, and with over 12 years’ experience in the language industry, he focuses his academic interests on innovative multidisciplinary projects with an emphasis on the use of cutting-edge technologies in translation and interpreting education.
E-mail: Alex.AvellaArchila@monash.edu
Hyein Cho is a PhD candidate and research associate at Monash University. She received both her BA in International Studies and MA in International Relations at Deakin University. Her research interests include the Korean diaspora, violence against women, domestic and family violence, immigration and the ageing population, and digital humanities.
E-mail: hyein.cho@monash.edu
