About the Authors
Elizabeth A. Winston
betsywinston@TIEMCenter.org
Betsy Winston directs the Teaching Interpreting Educators and Mentors (TIEM) Center, a center focused on excellence and integrity in interpreter and mentor education and research. Her expertise includes teaching and research in curriculum development, assessment and evaluation, discourse analysis, interpreting skills development, educational interpreting, multimedia applications in ASL research and teaching, and teaching at a distance. She has been honored by CIT and RID in 2000 with the Mary Stotler Award, for her contributions to the field of Interpreter Education; in 2016, she received the Outstanding Service to Interpreting award from NAD, as a member of the RID Certification Committee.
Robert G. Lee
robertglee@mac.com
Robert G. Lee has been interpreting, teaching and researching for more than 30 years. He is currently an associate academic specialist in the ASL and Interpreting Education Program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he was senior lecturer and course leader of the MA and Postgraduate Diploma in British Sign Language/English Interpreting at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). He has presented at conferences and workshops for spoken and signed language interpreters in North and South America and across Europe. In addition to other publications, Robert coedited (with Betsy Winston) the RID Press book, Mentorship in Sign Language Interpreting and coauthored (with Peter Llewellyn-Jones) the SLI Press book Redefining the Role of the Community Interpreter: The Concept of Role-Space.
Christine Monikowsi
c.monikowski@gmail.com
Christine Monikowski’s published works include Evolving Paradigms in Interpreter Education coedited with Elizabeth Winston (Gallaudet University Press, 2013) and Service Learning in Interpreting Education coauthored with Rico Peterson (Oxford University Press, 2005). Her most recent volume is titled Teaching and Learning: Grounded in Research (Gallaudet University Press 2017). In 2013, Dr. Monikowski was Fulbright Specialist (under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State) in Australia at the University of Newcastle’s Royal Institute for Deaf Blind Children/Renwick. In the spring of 2016 she was a Short-Term Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. In December 2017, Professor Monikowski retired from her position in higher education and now lives in New Mexico. She has become an avid pickleball player and enjoys exploring the Southwest with her husband.
Rico Peterson
rxpnss@rit.edu
Rico Peterson is a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. An interpreter since 1973 and teacher of interpreting since 1985, Dr. Peterson has advised and consulted with developing interpreting programs in Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan. His publications include The Unlearning Curve: Learning to Learn American Sign Language (Sign Media, Inc.) and coauthorship of ASL at Work (DawnSignPress.) He was a coeditor of Interpreting and Interpreter Education: Directions for Research and Practice (Oxford University Press) and has published in volumes from John Benjamins, ACTFL, the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the CALICO Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Gallaudet University Press.
Laurie Swabey
laswabey@stkate.edu
Laurie Swabey is Professor of Interpreting at St. Catherine University and Director of the CATIE Center. Publications include coedited volumes Advances in Interpreting Research (John Benjamins) and Educating Healthcare Interpreters (Gallaudet University Press) and several book chapters. She has published in Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Journal of Healthcare Quality, Journal of Interpreting, and International Journal of Interpreter Education. She has served as a member of the advisory board for the National Council on Interpreting in Healthcare (NCIHC) and the CCHI (Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters).