Journal of Interpreter Education
CIT is in the process of developing a journal of interpreter education as a benefit of membership.
CIT Journal Committee
The committee is continuing our work on establishing a journal for teachers of interpreting. At this writing (mid-December), we have met once as a committee and are meeting again next week. We discussed goals of the committee regarding content of the journal, on-line vs. print delivery, process for selection of articles, costs, scope, and frequency of publication. Procedures for future meetings were determined, including format and frequency. A meeting schedule was set through the end of the school year.
The work of realizing CIT’s vision for a journal with research articles on teaching sign language and interpreting has now begun. It’s a huge project, but our committee has excited, motivated and brilliant people on it and we are ready to move forward. Here is the committee:
Co-Chair - Suzanne Ehrlich-Martin, Ed.D: Suzanne is a researcher and Director/Field Service Assistant Professor in the Sign Language Interpreting/Deaf Studies program in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati.
Co-Chair - Len Roberson, Ph.D: Len Roberson has been involved in the fields of deaf education and interpreting for 21 years. His interest in, and heart for, Deaf people comes from his maternal grandfather who was deaf. Len holds both the certificate of interpretation (CI) and the certificate of transliteration (CT) from the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) as well as a Ph.D. from Gallaudet University in Deaf Education.
Sherry Shaw, Ed.D: Sherry is an Associate Professor in the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of North Florida. She has had several years of experience as a journal reviewer. She is a new researcher and teaches a research methods course for interpreting students. She has several publications in various journals.
Kimberly Hale: Kimberly is an ASL Specialist in the ASL and Interpreter Education Department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond Kentucky. She has a Masters’ degree in Linguistics and hopes to begin a doctoral program in Communications. She has not published yet, but is currently working on a couple of articles for publication.
Brenda Nicodemus, Ph.D: Brenda has been interpreting for 18 years and has taught interpreting in Indianapolis, Albuquerque, and through the DO IT Center in Colorado. She got an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University and this past May she finished my Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her dissertation was a study of the prosodic markers used in ASL interpretation that cued sentence boundaries in the discourse. She has just accepted a position in the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience in San Diego and moved there in September.
Annette Miner, Ed.S: CIT Director of Research and Publications, chair of the journal committee and liaison to the CIT Board.
If you are interested in being involved with this project, or have ideas, please contact Annette Miner, our Director of Publications and Research.