Yi Feng

Yi Feng received her MA of Teaching Chinese to the Speakers of Other Languages in East China Normal University. She taught in UVA-in-Shanghai Chinese Program since 2009-2011 and worked as a full-time lecturer in University of Virginia 2011-2012. Her teaching interest includes all levels of Chinese teaching, assessment of language learning and teacher training.

Ela Gezen

Ela Gezen received her MA in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University and her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st Century German literature and music, minority studies, cultural studies, transnationalism, exile studies, and cultural geography. She has published on Turkish-German artists Kemal Kurt, Islamic Force, and Tahsin Incirci. Currently she is investigating the intercultural exchange between Marxist intellectuals Bertolt Brecht and Nazim Hikmet.

Moira Inghilleri

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of London, BA University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Before joining the Comparative Literature Department in 2012, Moira Inghilleri held a joint position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College from 1998-2007. Between 2002 and 2007 she was awarded three consecutive research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the largest funder of research on economic and social issues in the UK, for her work on interpreting in the UK asylum system.    She was subsequently awarded a three year ESRC Career Fellowship (2008-2011) during which time she was based in the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London. She is the author of Interpreting Justice: Ethics, Politics and Language (2012) and the forthcoming, Sociological Approaches to Translation and Interpreting. She served as Review Editor for The Translator between 2005 and 2011 and became co-editor of The Translator in 2011. Prior to joining the journal as co-editor in 2011, she guest-edited two special issues: Bourdieu and the Sociology of Translating (2005) and Translation and Violent Conflict (2010, with Sue-Ann Harding). Her research has appeared in Translation Studies, The Translator, Target, Language and Communication and Linguistica Antverpiensia and a number of edited collections. She will be taking over the role of Director of Interpreting Studies in the Translation Center and contributing to the development of teaching and research in Translation and Interpreting Studies and Comparative Literature. Her current research interests include the sociology of translation and interpreting, translation and interpreting ethics, the role of interpreters and translators in war zones, and translation and migration.

Kerstin Mueller Dembling

Kerstin Mueller Dembling is Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator in German and Scandinavian Studies. She holds an MA from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and a PhD from UMass Amherst. Before joining GSS, she taught at Connecticut College, The Ohio State University, and Vassar College. Her specializations include 20th and 21st century German literature and cultural studies, German cinema, and Holocaust memory. Her research focuses on the intersections of cultural productions and history, and her publications include articles on the reception of Holocaust dramas in postwar Germany, humorous portrayals of Hitler in art, and recent documentary films exploring the Nazi legacy within the family.

Kerstin teaches language classes at all levels and enjoys innovative approaches to the foreign language classroom, for example by integrating new technologies and media such as the Internet, wikis, and German TV. Her course offerings will include the elementary and intermediate German sequence, foreign language pedagogy, and courses on German literature, film, and theater.

Chan Young Park

Chan Young Park is a Five College joint faculty in Korean based at UMass. She teaches Korean at UMass and Mt. Holyoke College. She received her Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction and specialized in Language and Literacy at Arizona State University. Her research interest is in heritage language education and second/foreign language acquisition.